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Secure & observable Node.js/Express/TS API template. Features pre-configured security headers, error handling, OpenTelemetry integration, and quality tooling (ESLint/Prettier/TS). Jumpstart robust API development following best practices.

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The Node TypeScript Express API Template provides a robust and secure foundation for building RESTful APIs using Node.js, Express, and TypeScript. It comes pre-configured with essential middleware for enhanced security headers, compression, cookie parsing, and standardized error handling. Including basic OpenTelemetry integration for observability and integrated tooling like ESLint, Prettier, and TypeScript Stack, this template accelerates development while ensuring adherence to best practices for building scalable and maintainable backend services.

What is Premierstacks

GitHub Organization → /premierstacks

Premierstacks is a premier organization delivering a complete ecosystem of libraries, packages, and templates for full-stack web development. It provides end-to-end solutions for backend systems, APIs, and frontend interfaces built on PHP, Laravel, TypeScript, React, and Material Design 3.

Beyond code, Premierstacks focuses on creating a seamless development experience, offering support tools for planning, architecture, deployment, and long-term project maintenance. Each resource within the ecosystem is crafted with precision, adhering to strict quality standards, and designed to scale effortlessly.

From initial project planning and logical architecture to seamless development workflows and optimized production deployment, Premierstacks delivers tools engineered for excellence across every stage of the software lifecycle.

Why Premierstacks

Premierstacks exists to solve the recurring challenges of modern software development: inconsistency, poor maintainability, and fragmented tooling. It offers a complete ecosystem of libraries, templates, and supporting tools, designed to streamline workflows, enforce best practices, and ensure long-term reliability.

Every component in Premierstacks is crafted with precision, following strict quality standards. From backend logic to frontend interfaces and infrastructure tooling, the focus remains on delivering scalable, future-proof, and seamless solutions. With Premierstacks, development becomes faster, cleaner, and more consistent—right from the first line of code to final deployment.

What is Tomchochola

GitHub Personal → /tomchochola

The Tomchochola GitHub profile features a range of public and private repositories, including experimental tools, independent projects, and legacy systems. These repositories often represent unique solutions that exist outside the strict quality and structural guidelines of Premierstacks.

Here, you’ll find codebases that may belong to different ecosystems, technologies, or experimental workflows. Some projects serve specific use cases, while others are standalone solutions or serve as proof-of-concept prototypes. This profile is a playground for ideas, tools, and resources that might not fully align with the long-term goals of Premierstacks but still offer value and insight into various aspects of software development.

About the Creator

Tomáš Chochola is a software architect, technical leader, and creator of the Premierstacks ecosystem. With years of experience in backend and frontend development, cloud infrastructure, and team management, he has established a reputation for delivering scalable, maintainable, and robust software solutions.

His expertise spans backend systems built on PHP and Laravel, frontend interfaces designed with React and Material Design 3, and efficient workflows powered by modern tooling and infrastructure solutions.

Specializations

Backend Development: PHP, Laravel, JSON:API
Frontend Development: TypeScript, React, Material Design 3
Tooling: ESLint, Prettier, Webpack, PHPStan, PHP CS Fixer, Stylelint

Support the Creator

GitHub Sponsors -> /sponsors/tomchochola

Premierstacks is now freely available under the Creative Commons BY-ND 4.0 license, offering high-quality tools, libraries, and templates to the developer community. While the ecosystem remains open and accessible, its growth, updates, and ongoing maintenance depend on individual support.

By sponsoring Tomáš Chochola on GitHub Sponsors, you directly contribute to the continued development, improvement, and long-term sustainability of Premierstacks. Every contribution supports the creation of reliable, scalable, and future-proof solutions for developers worldwide.

Your support makes a difference—thank you for being a part of this journey.

License

Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Copyright © 2025, Tomáš Chochola chocholatom1997@gmail.com. Some rights reserved.

This license requires that reusers give credit to the creator. It allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, even for commercial purposes.

Creative Commons License for Software?

The Creative Commons BY-ND 4.0 license is perfectly suited to Premierstacks. It offers developers the freedom to integrate the software into their projects while preserving the original author’s vision and ensuring consistency across the ecosystem.

Dynamic linking and object-oriented programming practices, such as inheritance or method overriding, are fully permitted. This enables seamless adaptation of the software in dynamic contexts without violating the license. However, static linking, forks, or modifications that alter the software’s original form are prohibited to maintain its integrity and prevent the creation of fragmented or subpar versions.

By protecting the core quality and unity of Premierstacks, this license ensures that developers can confidently rely on it as a trusted, high-standard solution for their projects.

Getting Started

1. Review the documentation and license

Ensure this package fits your needs and that you agree with the terms.

2. Project Creation

Use the Use this template button on the GitHub repository page to create a new repository from this template.

3. Customize Your Project

Explore the generated repository, remove unnecessary components and adjust it to fit your project's needs.

4. CLI

Available commands:

# provision for local environment
npm run local

# provision for development environment
npm run development

# provision for testing environment
npm run testing

# provision for staging environment
npm run staging

# provision for production environment
npm run production

# start app
npm run start

# run automatic code fixers
npm run fix

# run linters, static analysis, tests and audit
npm run check

# call before every commit
npm run commit

Contact

📧 Email: chocholatom1997@gmail.com
👨 GitHub Personal: https://github.com/tomchochola
🏢 GitHub Organization: https://github.com/premierstacks
💰 GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/tomchochola

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