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`

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

2. 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.

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

7. you should saw a express typescript app being generated (with src, package.json etc) .
`
├── jsonSchema/
│ └── ...
├── src/
│ └── ...
├── package.json
├── tsconfig.json
├── vex.config.json
└── .env
`

8. start the generated express app.
`
npm i
npm build
npm run start
``

Resource

- Documents
- Road Map
- ReleaseNote

- Discord