Node TS Backend BOilerplate

This repo contains a boilerplate backend with Nodejs and Express in Typescript. It is currently intended for development/staging only.

Setting up the development environment

• Install npm modules with

  npm install

• Create an empty .env file in the root foder using sample.env as an example.

Starting the project with autoreload for development

• In a console tab run the following to compile the code in watch mode

  tsc -w

• In a different console tab run the following to start the server and make it reload on changes

  nodemon dist/index.js

Testing your code

  npm test