jGen

A cli to create node project structure

NOTE: This module is under development hence not in npmjs.com. npm install jgen won't work.

1. Clone this repository on your system.
2. Open this folder location in your terminal
3. do

     $ npm install -g
   

Getting Started

Create a new folder where you want to setup your project. Open this folder in your terminal and execute

  $ jgen init

Enter your project name and other details as you generally do while npm init.

The whole project gets setup after this which includes

1. Creating file-folder structure
2. Writing all the files
   • Create package.json
   • Create .gitignore
   • Create project files
3. Initialise git repository
4. Add git remote if specified
5. Install all dependencies

Starting app

Start your app using

  $ npm start

Generating Models

To create models in your app use

  $ jgen model <model_name>

It will create the basic CRUD(Create, Read, Update, Delete) routes. All the routes can be found in /tmp/routes.html

Features

1. To require any file located inside modules/ folder, you can use

     var UserOperations = requireFromModule('users/operations');

   instead of writing the absolute file location.

2. App is created using express.js on MongoDB using mongoose client.

3. successJSON(data) and errorJSON(errorCode, err, message) functions are provided for sending api responses to the client. Use

     res.json(successJSON(result));

   It will send a json object as:

   {
     "success": true,
     "data": "<result>"
   }

4. Java inspired logger (jlogger) is integrated by default. Log directly anywhere from the app using Log.e(), Log.w(), Log.i() or Log.d().

##Backward Compatibility Due to the library still being in development, incase you are pulling the repository after initialising project, it is recommended to run

$ jgen update

to incorporate new featues.

Todo

1. Add redis caching
2. Add logs for database transactions
3. mocha test scripts for main server per model
4. including api authentication