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