The main purpose of this repository is to show a working Node.js API Server + front-end project and workflow for writing Node code in TypeScript.

To build and run this app locally you will need a few things:

• Install Node.js
• Install MongoDB
• Install pnpm (npm install -g pnpm@latest-10)

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/dreamsparkx/node-ts-starter <project_name>

Install dependencies

cd <project_name>
pnpm install

Configure and start MongoDB

mongod

# on macOS 10.15 or above the db directory is under home directory
mongod --dbpath ~/data/db

Build and run the project

pnpm build
pnpm start