Custom Express template for NodeJS servers.

• Pug template engine to render HTML
• Environment settings loaded with dotenv
• Hot reload with nodemon
• Postman HTTP request collection
• Custom error handling with support for async/await
• Documentation on why/how each piece works
• Select middleware:
  • morgan HTTP requests logger
  • helmet to set response headers securely
  • serve-static to serve public files
  • cors for Cross Origin Resource Sharing
  • body-parser to process request bodies
  • timeout to signal timeout in HTTP requests
  • Listing of optional middleware in the docs

• Implement more detailed error handling (see GDPR project)
• Add healthchecks for readiness and liveness
• Add a better stack tracer
• Create a private HTTP API for registered users only, with jsonwebtoken
• Experiment with passport
• Caching mechanisms
• Performance tuning

Any comments and contributions are much welcome!

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