Express Boilerplate!

This is a boilerplate project used for starting new projects!

Set up

Complete the following steps to start a new project (NEW-PROJECT-NAME):

1. Clone this repository to your local machine git clone BOILERPLATE-URL NEW-PROJECTS-NAME
2. cd into the cloned repository
3. Make a fresh start of the git history for this project with rm -rf .git && git init
4. Install the node dependencies npm install
5. Edit the contents of the package.json to use NEW-PROJECT-NAME instead of "name": "express-boilerplate",

Scripts

Start the application npm start

Start nodemon for the application npm run dev

Run the tests npm test

Deploying

When your new project is ready for deployment, add a new Heroku application with heroku create. This will make a new git remote called "heroku" and you can then npm run deploy which will push to this remote's master branch.