The SaaS Backend Template

A minimal platform agnostic dockerized backend template for SaaS using Prisma, TS and docker

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js 18.x
• Docker

Installation

1. Clone the repository
2. Install dependencies
3. Create a .env file in the root directory copied from .env.example. Set the correct SLASH env variable for your operating system.
4. Spin up the database and server

   npm run dup
   

   [MacOS] if the server container fails to start due to permissions, run the following command:

   chmod +x ./start.sh
   

5. Seed the database with some data

   npm install -g dotenv-cli
   npm run prisma:seed
   

6. Start writing code!

Deployment

Docker

1. Build the docker image

   npm run docker:build

2. Run the docker compose

   npm run docker:compose

AWS

TBD (WIP)