forge-node-app 🛠📦🎊

A Fast Way to Generate Node.js Boilerplate With Your Favorite Development Tools and Libs

💖 Inspired by vue-cli

Usage 🛴

Run

npx forge-node-app

Or install globally

npm i -g forge-node-app
forge-node-app

Preview 🔍

Supported Things 📄

VanillaJS, TypeScript, Babel
npm, yarn
ESLint, Prettier
dotenv, nodemon, ts-node-dev
Jest, Mocha + Chai
git repo (GitHub, GitLab)

Additonal Stuff 📜

Setting up Initial Folders (src, tests)
Setting up Initial Files (index, index.test)
Initing the package, Setting up Scripts and Package Details
Generating LICENSE, README, .gitignore, prettier and linter configs, babel and ts configs
Providing compatibility for all libraries with TS/Babel

Contributing 🤝

Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome!
Feel free to check issues page

Quick start 🚀

Clone the repo
npm install
npm run build && npm start

Tech stack 📜

TypeScript + ESLint(AirBNB) + Prettier
Inquirer for the interface
chalk for terminal colors
ora for cli spinners
license for LICENSE generation

ToDo 🧾

More libs (JSDoc, Process Managers, Loggers)
Add yargs

What i Learned 🧠

Building CLI with Inquirer, ora, chalk
TypeScript & Babel basics
How to setup Modern Node.js Project
ESLint, Prettier, tsconf structures
How npm and yarn work
Setting up simple Unit tests with Jest, Mocha + Chai
Writing package manager scripts
Publishing npm package

License 📑

(c) 2020 Ilya Revenko. MIT License