Backend starter code

This repository is to be used as a starter for Koa based Node.js applications written in TypeScript and using MongoDB. It includes a range of nice packages and configurations. It also has a stub for user login via Telegram, Facebook and Google. Enjoy!

Installation and local launch

1. Clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/backmeupplz/backend-starter
2. Launch the mongo database locally
3. Create .env with the environment variables listed below
4. Run yarn install in the root folder
5. Run yarn develop

And you should be good to go! Feel free to fork and submit pull requests. Documentation is also available in this repo.

Environment variables

Name	Description
MONGO	URL of the mongo database
JWT	secret for JWT
FACEBOOK_APP_ID, FACEBOOK_APP_SECRET	Facebook login credentials
TELEGRAM_LOGIN_TOKEN	Telegram login bot

Also, please, consider looking at .env.sample.

Continuous integration

Any commit pushed to master gets deployed to backend.todorant.com via CI Ninja.