🚀 An opinionated backend web service scaffolding

An ever evolving starting point for wonderful ideas... ✨

Tools used

• Fastify
• Zod
• Drizzle
• Hermes (a custom-built messaging library)
• Postgres
• Redis

Setting Up

Setup .env from the default values in .env.development

cp .env.development .env

Install node dependencies

pnpm i

Start dependencies in docker

make start

Running the service

Run tests

pnpm run test

Start the development server

pnpm run dev

Or, start the service alongside all dependencies in docker

make start-all

The service will start listening on port 4001

Managing database Migrations

Migrations files are tracked in the /migrations directory

make migrate [...args]

up [N]        Apply all or N up migrations
down [N]      Apply all or N down migrations

create NAME   Create a set of timestamped up/down migrations titled NAME

Migrations are internally handled with https://github.com/golang-migrate/migrate

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Using as a template

• Find and replace all occurrences of starter-service to whatever other name you'd prefer for your project.
• Update src/config/index.ts to update default app configuration

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This project was bootstrapped from github.com/SwarnimWalavalkar/webServiceStarter