VeryExpress

this is a generator to make Express app
with custom REST API defined in Json Schema and Open Api

Features

• generate simple express.js server.
• generate custom REST API.
• API Validator by express-validator
• generate OpenApi
• Swagger UI Express
• OAuth by Passport.js
• Database Driver
  • MongoDB by Mongoose

Why use ExpressJs

express.js is a simple & flexible framework to build a web app, it provide balanced performance,
as this is open-source project, i want lower the technical barrier to contribute ideas,
eventually lead to a usefull and powerful framework.

Quick Start

1. install package globally.
   npm i -g very-express

2. use cli to initialize configuration file vex.config.json under your project root directory.
   vex -init

3. create a empty directory and name it as value of vex.config's "jsonSchemaDir", by default jsonSchema.
   mkdir jsonSchema.

4. you can create your db collection/table now in directory ./jsonSchema just created,
   refer to Define Json Schmea, every changes require to regenerate app.

5. generate the app with vex.config param.
   vex

6. you should saw a express typescript app being generated (with src, package.json etc) .

   ├── jsonSchema/  
   │   └── ...
   ├── src/ 
   │   └── ...
   ├── package.json  
   ├── tsconfig.json  
   ├── vex.config.json  
   └── .env  
   

7. start the generated express app.

   npm i  
   npm build    
   npm run start
   

Resource

• Documents

• Road Map

• ReleaseNote

• Discord