Basic API server (Node.js + Express.js and TypeScript)

Abstract

A basic functional template for creating an API server using Node.js + Express.js and TypeScript.

Test

The template is functional and you can test it using HTTPie, curl or Postman.

Start the API server

npm run dev

> api_srvr@1.0.0 dev
> nodemon ./src/apisrvr.ts

[nodemon] 3.0.2
[nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs`
[nodemon] watching path(s): *.*
[nodemon] watching extensions: ts,json
[nodemon] starting `ts-node ./src/apisrvr.ts`
Basic API Server listening on Port:3000
TypeScript Version
Press Ctrl-C to exit

Test with HTTPie

Using another terminal, run the following wommand

... $> http localhost:3000/ HTTP/1.1 200 OK Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 16 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2023 03:23:55 GMT ETag: W/"10-bZZA7c+e/eSluV2PjdNck3t/8tA" Keep-Alive: timeout=5 X-Powered-By: Express

Main page loaded

$> ...