base.js

Production application boilerplate for Koa, batteries included:

• ES6 + Babel
• ESLint with the Airbnb JavaScript rules.
• ApiDoc creates a documentation from API annotations in your source code.
• Mocha Unit testing and coverage with Chai assertion framework.
• Editorconfig Consistent coding styles formatter.
• Yarn Dependency management.
• Koa.js Next generation web framework.
• Dotenv Production settings profile solution.
• JSON Web Tokens Industry standard RFC 7519 method for representing claims securely between two parties.

Key NPM Scripts

• npm start - start Koa with hot reload supports (default port 3000).
• npm run docs - generate API docs in docs folder (ignored by git) & start serving.

Batteries included

• configurable prefixed server endpoint (/v1 by default).
• JWT based authentication.
• common middleware.
• intelligent/automatic config registration.
• intelligent/automatic routes registration.

Module created under apps folder with routes defined in index.js will be registered onto server router automatically.

// OPTIONAL prefix definition, by default, system will register the module name as its routing prefix.
//  `prefix -> false` will disable prefix for this module.
export const prefix = '/<module-prefix>';

import * as mw from './middleware';
import * as views from './views';

export default {
  'GET /', views.list,
  'GET /:key', views.get,
  'POST /', [mw.acl, views.create],
  'PUT  /:key', views.update,
  'DELETE /:key', views.delete,
}

• module alias support

// Use this:
import MyUtilFn from 'utils/MyUtilFn';
// Instead of that:
import MyUtilFn from '../../../../utils/MyUtilFn';

• x ESLint rules supports.
• x NPM scripts for common operations.
• x dotenv based multi settings profiles at server side.
• x Grouped routing system.
• x Grouped settings system.
• x unit test integration.
• x hot reload koa server.
• PM2 ecosystem integration.
• common helpers.