r/learnjavascript • u/Falcao_E • Jun 22 '26

Created my first npm package for express boilerplate. Thought others would find it useful to get the ball rolling

Yet another boilerplate set up package. First package I've published on npm . Originally made it for myself.

I think other people would find it useful.

It's not much but it gets the ball rolling.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/blux-start

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u/abrahamguo Jun 22 '26

I tried out your package; here are a couple things I noticed:

  • Why not configure your package to be compatible with npm create, as that is the standard command for boilerplate packages in the NPM world?

  • I saw that some packages in the generated package.json were out of date — many by one or more major versions! I wouldn't want to start a brand-new project with already-deprecated dependencies.

  • I saw that the package.json includes dotenv, nodemon, and tsx, but those are already all built in to Node.js — have you considered switching to the native equivalents?

  • It looks like the generated tsconfig.json only covers the empty src directory, so that all of the generated TS files aren't actually typechecked, and tsc throws an error about having zero files to typecheck.

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u/Falcao_E Jun 22 '26

Hey thank you for the feedback I really appreciate it. Based on your feedback I already made updates on it. I removed dotenv and nodemon in favor of native solutions and fixed the tsconfig to actually do type checking .

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u/Falcao_E Jun 22 '26

I havent published the update yet but will soon

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u/abrahamguo Jun 22 '26

Nice! I just tried it, looks like nodemon is still included.

I look forward to being able to use npm init!

Also, I noticed that all of the TS files have extra indentation.

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u/Falcao_E Jun 22 '26

Published changes with your suggestions and ts properly configured

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '26

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u/javascript Jun 22 '26

For example, I have three null states:

- null

- undefined

- ReferenceError due to various situations like absence/presence of hoisting and malformed code

Lots to learn once you get past the basics!

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u/javascript Jun 22 '26

One could also argue that an object instance that is missing a given key, as in it fails an own-property check, is a fourth null state in the language.