expressJS/typescript skeleton

• npm install
• tsc
• npm run start

App Structure

Entry point is server.ts, which instantiates the app. Under controllers, we have the BaseController class, which represents a generic handler for an API endpoint. In BaseController, the execute method wraps executeImpl and provides request/response objects to your implementation.

Routes

Routes define endpoints that we can hit in the API, and connect the requester to a specific controller, which pulls the response data from the data source.

Controllers

Controllers get data from the requested model, and enforce a specific type for that response. The Basecontroller class contains response objects for the HTTP response, such as success, forbidden, and ok.

Services

Each controller has a companion service that fetches the data to be returned from the API, and executes any logic that has to do with the it, such as database calls.

Types

Response data types, enforced by services.