Make-express-api NPM

Make-Express-API

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"make-express-api" is a cli tool which help back-end developers to generate express api faster. By writing a single line of code, developer will be able to create CRUD api for a specific module. This tool not only will generate the API, it will take care of proper folder structure as well as versioning system. By default the rest api is designed by following "Rechardson standard level". Right now user won't be able to change it whether they are rewriting the api response.

Contribute

This is an open source project. Anybody can contribute with this project. If any of you want to contribute with this project to help express developer community, you guys are welcome.

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Authors

Hi, I am Muhimenul Tareque, who developed the entire system inspired by RoR scaffold system. To know more you can visit the link bellow. Thank you.

How to use

It is very simple to use this application. To use this application just follow the instructions mentioned bellow:

Download the package within your express project

npm i make-express-api

Create a config file called scaffold.config.js at root directory of your project.
Add this with package.json

"scripts": {
  "scaffold": "create-scaffold"
}

Add the following option into the config file.

module.exports = {
    language: "js", // value=> js
    folders: {
        route: "routes", // routig folder name
        controller: "controllers", // controller folder name
        service: "repositories" //service folder name
    }

};

If you done the step written above, you are good to make api's using make-express-api app.
Open your terminal and run the following command from the root of the project directory. npm run scaffold -- -v <version> -m <module_name> Example: npm run scaffold -- -v v1 -m books
Now your API's are ready. It's time to connect the api with main file.
Open your main file index.js or app.js and import the router from the route file.
Add app.use('books/v1/', booksRouter)