A robust, production-ready Node.js server setup powered by Express and TypeScript. Designed for scalability, clean architecture, and an exceptional developer experience out of the box.

• Robust Foundation: Built with Express v5 and compiled with TypeScript v6.
• Exceptional DX: Instant hot-reloading with nodemon and ts-node.
• Clean Imports: Fully configured absolute path aliasing via tsconfig-paths & tsc-alias.
• Production Ready: Optimized multi-step build process separating source and distributable code.

Ensure you have the following installed on your system:

• Node.js (v18.x or newer is recommended)

Follow these steps to get your development environment set up and running locally.

Install all the required packages to run the project.

npm install

Start up the development server. This mode features hot-reloading, meaning the server will automatically restart whenever you save changes to your files.

npm run dev

Compile your TypeScript codebase down to optimized JavaScript code ready for deployment.

npm run build

The compiled output will be securely generated inside a root-level dist/ directory.

Start the compiled JavaScript application. Ensure you have compiled the code using npm run build beforehand!

npm run start

Here is a summary of the npm scripts defined within package.json:

• npm run dev - Initializes the development server.
• npm run build - Initiates the TypeScript compiler & processes path aliases.
• npm run start - Executes the compiled application from /dist.
• npm run test - Placeholder command for initializing a test runner.

├── src/                # Contains all raw TypeScript source files
│   └── index.ts        # Primary execution entry point
├── dist/               # Production-ready compiled JavaScript
├── package.json        # Dependencies & executable project scripts
└── tsconfig.json       # TypeScript compiler options

• Express.js - Core web application framework.
• TypeScript - Static type-checking and modern JavaScript features.
• Nodemon - Utility monitor that automatically restarts the server.

This setup is kept intentionally lean while enforcing strict, reliable types.