Boilerplate Nodejs with Typescript project

Prerequisites

This boilerplate uses the @tsconfig/node16-strictest/tsconfig.json base tsconfig.json file. Because of that, it expects NodeJS >= 18.

What you get:

• Express
• Typescript
• Eslint with Typescript support
• Jest with Typescript support (your test code must be written in typescript)
• Prettier
• Husky (formats your code before each commit using a package called "pretty-quick")
• Pre-configured settings for debbuging in VSCode

Recommended VSCode extensions:

In Visual Studio Code, install the following extensions:

• "EditorConfig for VS Code", from EditorConfig
• "Prettier - Code Formatter", from Prettier
• "ESLint", from Microsoft

Prettier config

• Since I use VSCode, and VSCode uses double quotes when automatically importing modules, I decided to use double-quotes by default for all strings

Jest config

• Use the .tests.ts extension for your test files
• The test files should be written alongside the actual source code, inside __tests__ folders