Hello and welcome to yet another express-backend/apirest that i've made.

I promise, this one will be the last, and the best of all 3 versions, mainly because I'm not using TS nor Docker, this is but just a simple express apirest, with JWT and Sequelize.

Its very easy to use as a template, and its extremely customizable.

• jsonwebtoken: for session management.
• Sequelize: ORM for database connection and transactions.
• dotenv: for environment variables ( configuration ).
• express-boom: for error response standardization.
• morgan: for console ( or to file ) logging.
• cors: for easy enabling cors.

• ./utils/: A folder with utils to develop faster and better.

  • .env: File that holds a simulation of environment variables. ( you should pass your config values through env variables when deploying, its good practice!).
  • requests.http: File used by the REST Client vscode extension, used to do requests to our api, similar to Postman but far lighter, and simpler.

• ./helpers/: A folder containing tiny modules that will help us.

  • session.js: A file containing all JSON web token logic, and also a middleware using in server.js that verifies the token for each url-path, and also refreshes it.

• ./config/: folder holding our configuration files.

  • general.js: General configuration used through all the application. Grabs all configuration values from .env, and if they are not defined, it gives default values.
  • database.js: Database configuration.

• ./models/: A folder containing database table models.

  • modelsManager.js: A file used to manage models, such as creating/altering tables, or even associating them.

• ./routers/: A folder containing all routers of each controller.

  • masterRouter: A file encapsulating all routers, from each router file.

• ./controllers/: A folder containing all express endpoints, and business logic.

• ./server.js: You should at least open this file once if you're going to use this :p .