I've recently been busy refactoring our api build for and the result looks like it could be open-sourced. Hunteed So Here it is, an edge-build for developing a node-express api using modern tools such as , @typescriptlang, @codeship, mocha Docker _typescript-express-docker - Dockerized node-express application, written in typescript_github.com aherve/typescript-express-docker git clone https://github.com/aherve/typescript-express-docker.git Some of the cool features it provides : Following the spirit of : we have a one-click install of the whole environment. Don't worry about mongodb, npm, or anything else, just run and you're ready to work. this post docker-compose up Whole project uses . And typescript validation is just awesome. Try adding some typos to your code and see the console warn you instantly: typescript typo: public exists but not puublic Typescript knows that View.count() will return a number. You can't expect the result to be a string. In my opinion, there is no coming back to javascript once you tried typescript. It just makes development & maintenance several times faster, while ensuring preventing MANY runtime bugs. No messing with babel anymore. Neither to run mocha, your local or remote server. Typescript compiles everything into good old es2015 code that you can use about everywhere No more callback hell : Await/Async usage Promise style usage mocha Unit tests are launched at each change. They are written in the cool ES7-like syntax, but are run against transpiled js code. I particularly like this syntax: await Continuous testing: Easy as pie : we use docker to build our app and run a local server. Codeship can run the exact same container to run the tests so there is no discrepancy between the different environments. Almost no additional work to do, and you can browse the result anytime you like: Hope you like it :)
