Initiating a new project is as exciting as frustrating. Going through all the routine work just to get the basic engine started, yaa I know the pain.<h2>create-express-boilerplate to Rescue</h2>I along with the tremendous help of <a href="https://github.com/hudaQeshta" rel="noopener noreferrer">huda</a> worked out the solution for you, in the form of create-express-boilerplate. It includes<ol><li>Entire expressjs setup</li><li>Validation Integration with <a href="https://express-validator.github.io/docs/" rel="noopener noreferrer">express-validator</a></li><li>Directory setups to provide you with less headache for where goes what</li><li>MVC architecture</li><li>DB support for both </li><li class="ql-indent-1"><a href="https://sequelize.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sequelize </a>(MySQL and SQLite)</li><li class="ql-indent-1"><a href="https://mongoosejs.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mongoose </a>(mongoDB)</li><li>Integrated<a href="https://jestjs.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer"> JEST test Suite</a></li><li>Both Vanilla JS and Typescript support</li><li><a href="https://typicode.github.io/husky/#/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Husky </a>Support for pre-commit hooks</li><li>Great amount of inbuild helper functions</li></ol>And many more to come..you can install the setup by running<pre class="ql-syntax" spellcheck="false" data-cacher="true" data-cacher-block-id="2398415744">npx create-express-boilerplate
</pre>you can have complete<a href="https://create-express-boilerplate.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Documentation Here</a>feel free to provide us with your review and feedback in the form of comments or issues on <a href="https://github.com/msamgan/expressjs-api-boilerplate" rel="noopener noreferrer">github</a>. All your contributions are cardinally welcome.

Initiating a new project is as exciting as frustrating. Going through all the routine work just to get the basic engine started, yaa I know the pain.

create-express-boilerplate to create new API projects in a secs

Thought it sounds simple and straight forward, this thing killed a lot of my time at the initial time of getting into node JS.the query string are directly available in the request for both get and post methods but to get the post data you send in json format you need to update you express JS index.js . In the root of your express JS setup you have index.js add the following line on the top after the creation of app.<pre class="ql-syntax" spellcheck="false">app.use(express.json());
</pre>Now you will be able to access the json data in post request in req.bodyIf you are facing the same issue with your form submits, please follow the <a href="/how-to-get-form-data-in-post-request-in-express-js-node-js" rel="noopener noreferrer">link for the solution.</a>

Thought it sounds simple and straight forward, this thing killed a lot of my time at the initial time of getting into node JS.