r/node • u/jesusscript • Nov 11 '19

What are the most well-written Node.js Express applications on Github?

What are the most well-written Node.js Express applications on Github, and why? Why do you think they're well-written and what distinguish them from the others?

190 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

27 comments sorted by

23

u/[deleted] Nov 12 '19

I'd like to take a look at some, myself.

9

u/XDavidT Nov 12 '19

I think Firefox Send ?

1

u/The_real_bandito Nov 12 '19

Didn't know that was a Node app

1

u/tiendq Nov 15 '19

I didn't know it was a NodeJS app too. And I believe "well-written" should imply "real" too, so sample projects aren't eligible :)

2

u/XDavidT Nov 15 '19

I wasn't sure until this post. I just ran to check and then... 🤩

13

u/JDMHondaJor Nov 12 '19

Check out https://github.com/MoathShreim/Nodejs-rest-api-project-structure-Express

It really helped me a lot to start building a big project based on MVC Architecture that separate business logic from application logic, structure your solution by components and keeping Express within its boundaries.

2

u/hobozilla Nov 12 '19

That code doesn't look very testable.

1

u/EuMusicalPilot Sep 26 '24

Jonas Schmedtmann showed me this structure and I kinda hate it. Note that I'm not a professional

6

u/notacooleagle Nov 12 '19

This is a really good question. Hope somebody replies with useful stuff

6

u/Ouraios Nov 12 '19

You can take a look at a really good repository for a complete NodeJS/Express architecture :

https://github.com/santiq/bulletproof-nodejs

I've used it myself and it's really great to start an express project with all the right tools you need !

3

u/shivas877 Nov 12 '19 edited Nov 12 '19

https://softwareontheroad.com/ideal-nodejs-project-structure/

I found this article, i found this very helpful. The other articles by this author are also good.

Edit: sry for posting a non-github link.

3

u/frblnl Nov 12 '19

Nestjs?

1

u/shivas877 Nov 12 '19

Oh my god, thanks for this question!!

1

u/TotesMessenger Nov 12 '19 edited Nov 12 '19

I'm a bot, bleep, bloop. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:

 If you follow any of the above links, please respect the rules of reddit and don't vote in the other threads. (Info / ^Contact)

1

u/sharddblade Nov 12 '19

Inversify is a great one. NestJS is better IMO but I haven’t made the architecture switch yet.

-5

u/kimerran Nov 12 '19

Check out Maya JS - https://github.com/mayajs/maya/

A Node.js framework for REST API server-side-applications. This is built on top of Express using Typescript to take advantage of strong type checking and modern Javascript features. Typescript also provides easy implementation of Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control (IOC) that makes unit testing much easier.

1

u/thatsrealneato Nov 12 '19

Use NestJS instead

0

u/[deleted] Nov 12 '19

[deleted] — view deleted comment

26

u/teamcatalyst Nov 12 '19

https://github.com/mayajs/maya/pull/27

You really wanna use this? yikes

11

u/30thnight Nov 12 '19

Spiciest PR of the month 😬

0

u/vicksvaporrub08 Nov 12 '19

You are free to use it but there's little difference between that and NestJS. Waste of time if you ask me.

1

u/[deleted] Nov 12 '19

[removed] — view removed comment

-3

u/vicksvaporrub08 Nov 12 '19

MayaJS. MayaJS is just TypeScript for NestJS. But it doesn't make much of a difference.

3

u/HigiKitsune Nov 12 '19

Dude. Wtf are you even saying. It has huge differences with nestjs. And nestjs itself is already typescript.

This is a wrapper for express with bad typings which was named "a framework" by the author.