Creates a new express application similar to the express-generator module. Except this new application is configured to use TypeScript instead of plain JavaScript.

NodeJS is great for the rapid development of web-projects, but is often neglected because of the lack of type safety. TypeScript solves this issue and (along with its linter file) can even make your code more robust than some other static languages like Java.

There are some other tools out there to generate express apps with TypeScript such as express-generator-ts, but these either haven't been updated in a while or install a lot of junk in your project (such as an ORM).

Due to the heavy use of single-page-applications, no view-engine is configured by default. Express is only setup with the minimal settings for calling APIs and serving an index.html file. All the tools you need to run for development (while restarting on changes), building, testing, and running for production are packaged with this library.

In addition, relative paths are also setup, so you don't have to go through the trouble of installing and configuring tsconfig-paths and module-alias. Just make sure to update paths in tsconfig.json and _moduleAliases in package.json if you want to add/edit the relative paths.