Node JS Backend Template

The templates are stuctured by Router-Controller-Model patterm

• contollers/
• exceptions/
• models/
• routes

Features!

• Contollers

  • All the route logic goes
  • Files are named as <function>-contoller.js

• Exceptions

  • All the errors are handled by the error.js file
  • define the default error template
  • The naming is based on the <function>-controller.js
  • Each controller has specific Error classes also

    class <function>Error extends Error {
        constructor(message) {
            super(message);
            this.status = 401;
            this.code = "UNAUTHORIZED";
            this.error = "ValidateError";
            this.msg = message;
        }
    }

• Models

  • All the DB based operations are abstracted to this folder.
  • Also the naming is based on the <function>-model.js

• Routes

  • All the application routes are defined over here
  • Naming <function>-routes.js, uses express router

Flow

Run Test case:

$ mocha test/*-test.js

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