🚀 ignite-express

Scaffolding your Express app in seconds — clean, modern, and production-ready.

A zero-setup CLI tool to generate a boilerplate for modern Express.js applications with all the boring stuff pre-configured.

✨ Features

• 🧱 Basic Express server setup
• 🌍 .env support via dotenv
• 🛡️ Helmet for security headers
• ♻️ Error handler middleware
• 🧼 Preconfigured ESLint + Prettier
• 🐳 Optional Dockerfile
• 🧙 Git init on demand

🚀 Quick Start

🔧 Using npx (no install)

npx ignite-express

🛠️ After Scaffolding

1. cd your-project-name
2. npm install — install dependencies
3. cp .env.example .env — configure your env variables
4. npm run dev — start in development mode

📜 Available Scripts

npm start       # Run production server
npm run dev     # Start with nodemon
npm run lint    # Lint code with ESLint
npm run format  # Format code with Prettier

🧠 Philosophy

This tool exists to reduce the boilerplate friction and help devs focus on what actually matters — your app logic. Everything else? Handled.

🧑‍💻 Contributing

Found a bug? Got an idea? Let’s build this in public:
GitHub Issues →
Submit a PR →

📄 License

MIT © ALI ZULFIQAR

🔗 Links

• 🌐 GitHub Repo
• 🐛 Report Issues
• 📦 NPM Package