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maitraysuthar/rest-api-nodejs-mongodb
A boilerplate for REST API Development with Node.js, Express, and MongoDB
A minimal Node.js/Express/MongoDB API boilerplate with auth, JWT, OTP email confirmation, and a Book CRUD example. Aimed at developers who want a project scaffold to clone and build on rather than wire up themselves. Best suited for beginners or solo developers starting a new side project.
1. Includes working auth end-to-end: registration, OTP confirmation, JWT issuance, and protected routes — not just stubs. 2. Test setup with Mocha/Chai and code coverage via nyc is present and wired into CI, which is more than most boilerplates bother with. 3. The response helper in apiResponse.js standardizes success/error shapes across all routes, which prevents the usual inconsistency drift. 4. Project structure is flat and conventional — controllers, models, routes, middlewares — easy to navigate without a guide.
1. Last pushed May 2023 and requires Node 8+, which is years out of support. No ESM, no async/await patterns throughout, and Mongoose is likely pinned to an old major. Adopting this means inheriting stale dependencies immediately. 2. No rate limiting or brute-force protection on auth routes — the login and OTP endpoints are wide open to enumeration attacks out of the box. 3. The Book example is a throwaway with no real-world complexity (no pagination, no filtering, no relationships), so the gap between the boilerplate and anything production-shaped is large. 4. No Docker setup or deployment guidance — local MongoDB is assumed, so onboarding a new developer or deploying to any hosted environment requires work the boilerplate doesn't help with.