template-node-express

A minimal production-ready node HTTP server with express.

Features

• ✅ Typescript
• ✅ Graceful shutdown
• ✅ Optional Tracing with OpenTelemetry (configurable via environment variables)
• ✅ Properly configured request payload size limiting to help prevent Denial of Service attack vectors
• ✅ AbortSignal propagation to prevent unnecessary work (includes example and test)
• ✅ Validation with express-validator
• ✅ Async error forwarding to default error handler with express-async-errors
• ✅ Structured logging with pino
• ✅ Rich request logging middleware including request id, trace id, context propagation, and more
• ✅ Testing with jest, supertest, and fetch-mock
• ✅ helmet & compression