The latest articles on DEV Community by Leshawn Rice (@leshawnrice). https://dev.to/leshawnrice https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F693369%2F49596965-3f16-46b9-9cba-62780a8fc3bf.png https://dev.to/leshawnrice en Leshawn Rice Fri, 24 Sep 2021 16:50:37 +0000 https://dev.to/leshawnrice/backend-generator-4jhm https://dev.to/leshawnrice/backend-generator-4jhm <p>Every time I make a backend in express, there’s always a small period of time at the start where I’m writing the same code just to get the backend setup. </p> <p>Error methods, authentication middleware, a user model, the database, basic login/register routes. All of these are essentially the same across my express backends save for the database schema. </p> <p>As I started up on configuring the backend for my latest project, I thought to myself, “Why don’t I just automate this?” </p> <p>Now, there are already tools available to generate an express backend for you, but as I’ve been working with ansible a lot lately at work, I figured I’d write a playbook to quickly generate an express backend with some basic user input.</p> <p>The result is <a href="https://github.com/leshawn-rice/express-generator">express-generator</a>.</p> <p>express-generator is essentially an ansible playbook run by a bash script that just takes some input to pass as variables to ansible. It’s lightweight, quick, and super easy to use: just download the source code, run bash setup.sh, then the next time you wanna create a backend in express, simply run express-generator from the command line and voila!</p> node ansible express backend