dalufishe / gen-express-app

Alternative to express-generator, an easy-to-use tool for generating express applications.

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gen-express-app's Issues

Can't create a project

It doesn't seem to accept any name.

ile@ilepc:~/src/sc2$ eg new testi1
> Project must contains only:
  - at least 5 characters
  - lower case type of name
  - project name may contain '_' and '-' characters.
Please re-enter the project name.
? Project Name: testi1
> Project must contains only:
  - at least 5 characters
  - lower case type of name
  - project name may contain '_' and '-' characters.
Please re-enter the project name.
? Project Name: testi1
> Project must contains only:
  - at least 5 characters
  - lower case type of name
  - project name may contain '_' and '-' characters.
Please re-enter the project name.
? Project Name: express-app
> Project must contains only:
  - at least 5 characters
  - lower case type of name
  - project name may contain '_' and '-' characters.
Please re-enter the project name.
? Project Name: express-app
> Project must contains only:
  - at least 5 characters
  - lower case type of name
  - project name may contain '_' and '-' characters.
Please re-enter the project name.
? Project Name: tasrt
> Project must contains only:
  - at least 5 characters
  - lower case type of name
  - project name may contain '_' and '-' characters.
Please re-enter the project name.

Supporting component generation (like on Angular CLI, ex. ng new component <component_name>)

I like your project and I want support this project too adding new features to this package. I made similar(but in very easy style) package for my diploma and add supporting .egen script file which can help generating not only start project, but can generate start components for bask-end like Models from DB, Controllers(providers), etc. And I want add this features to your project:

1. Supporting and creating cli config file for better project analizing
2. Adding command and modules for generating new components in generated ExpressJS project (controllers, services, DB supporting, etc.) like on NestJS CLI (ex. nest generate controller or nest generate application for adding MVC pattern or more powerfull)
3. Generating project based on cli config file
4. Personal runner for ExpressJS projects (like on Angular - ng serve)

Can I support this project and add it list of feteares to your package?

Dev Server crashes after creating project

Hey,
wanted to try out this generator since I want to use Express with TS.

However whenever I create a new project with eg new new_project and select Typescript or Typescript + MVC, cd into the project and type npm run dev I get the following output:

Node Version: 21.7.0
package manager: npm
view: pug

Create new label for gen-express-app package!

Since the project has its regular users and there is an opportunity to extend this package to more users, why don't we rename the package “egen”? This will help users remember the package better and increase the user audience. What do you think about this idea?

outdated dependencies in generated package.json

First: Nice work!
I'm learning some server-side js and this tool is of high value to me. It's confusing for someone like me to understand why the most popular backend framework in javascript still uses old practices such as commonjs.

Anyway, here's my question/issue:

Is there a reason for some of the package.json dependencies to require outdated versions? some of them are limiting the update to only patches (using ~)...

Here's what i just got in my generated package.json and what is the latest version of each package:

INSTALLED                                LATEST VERSION       
--------------------------------------   --------------
  "dependencies": {	                     
    "cookie-parser": "~1.4.4",           1.4.6
    "debug": "~2.6.9",                   4.3.4
    "dirname-filename-esm": "^1.1.1",    up to date
    "dotenv": "^16.3.1",                 up to date
    "ejs": "~2.6.1",                     3.1.9
    "express": "~4.16.1",                4.18.2
    "hbs": "~4.0.4",                     4.2.0
    "http-errors": "~1.6.3",             2.0.0
    "morgan": "~1.9.1",                  1.10.0
    "pug": "2.0.0-beta11"                3.0.2
  },                                     
  "devDependencies": {                   
    "gen-express-app": "^0.2.5",         0.2.9
    "typescript": "^5.2.2",              5.3.2
    "nodemon": "^3.0.1",                 up to date
    "@types/cookie-parser": "^1.4.5",    1.4.6
    "@types/express": "^4.17.20",        4.17.21
    "@types/http-errors": "^2.0.3",      2.0.4
    "@types/morgan": "^1.9.7",           1.9.9
    "@types/node": "^20.8.10"            20.9.5