Express Typescript Boilerplate

A minimalistic boilerplate, with everything you need to start building services with Express and Typescript. It uses the following technologies:

• Node 4
• Express 4
• JWT Authentication with jsonwebtoken lib
• Gulp
• Typescript 1.8
• Typing for manage Typescript type definitions
• PM2
• Handlebar template

Getting started

You need to have NodeJS v4 installed on your machine, please refer to NodeJs.org.

Install tools and typescript defintion with

npm run tools

Install dependency

npm install

for development from the src folder src run

gulp watch

which will popolate the dist folder, and spin the server with PM2, for monitor, stop or delete the app

pm2 list
pm2 <stop|delete> <myapp | pid>

or you can use the gulp shortcut for stop the server

gulp serve-stop

for more commands how to control the server please refer to PM2 docs