Express Boilerplate example app

A simple Node.js app (Express + Sequelize) with the purpose of providing a compact, clear and concise example to how Node.js apps can be built

This repo is a work in progress — Feel free to open issues and PRs.

Requirements

To get the Node server running locally:

expressjs - The server for handling and routing HTTP requests
Sequelize - a promise-based ORM for Node.js v4 and up, used to handle database migrations and queries
Morgan - an HTTP request logger
longjohn - A module that helps display more info regarding stack traces
require-all - An easy way to require all files within a directory
winston - Like console.log(), but better :)
cookie-session - Simple cookie-based session middleware, used to save and sync user session between the client and server
ejs - A templating engine for JavaScript

server.js - The entry point to our application. This file requires some of the above dependencies, starts logging requests, sets up the view engine, handles the creation and handling of cookies, sets up routing and eventually listens for a connection from the client
models/ - This folder contains the database models
controllers/ - This folder contains the controllers used in our routes. These contain the logic of what happens when a user requests a certain page or endpoint. By default, all controllers require an authenticated user. To allow public access, a controller needs to return {guest: true}
views/ - This folder contains the .ejs files that get served from our controllers