Node Express Boilerplate

Dependency freshness

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What's in the stack

Framework

Express

Database / ORM

MongoDB (Mongoose)

Email

Nodemailer

Testing

Jest

Detected from declared dependencies. A listed package means it's installed, not necessarily fully wired up.

What the README says you get

• API
  Joi request validationrequest data validation using Joi
• API
  Swagger API docswith swagger-jsdoc and swagger-ui-express
• API
  CORS supportCross-Origin Resource-Sharing enabled using cors
• Auth
  Passport authenticationAuthentication and authorization: using passport
• Data
  MongoDB with MongooseMongoDB object data modeling using Mongoose
• Deploy
  PM2 process managementadvanced production process management using PM2
• Deploy
  Docker supportDocker support
• Other
  Winston and Morgan loggingLogging: using winston and morgan
• Other
  Centralized error handlingcentralized error handling mechanism
• Other
  Yarn dependency managementDependency management: with Yarn
• Other
  dotenv environment variablesusing dotenv and cross-env
• Other
  Helmet security headersset security HTTP headers using helmet
• Other
  XSS and query sanitizationsanitize request data against xss and query injection
• Testing
  Jest testsunit and integration tests using Jest

Extracted from the kit's README by a local AI model (deepseek-flash) on Sep 29, 2026. Every item is checked against an exact README quote. A README claim is the maker's description, not something we tested.