What problem does it solve?
It solves the difficulty of building and maintaining production-ready Node.js backend services by providing proven architecture, middleware, validation, and error-handling patterns.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Framework-ready server setup: Express and Fastify patterns for security middleware, CORS, compression, logging, and request body handling.
- Scalable architecture blueprint: Layered structure (controllers, services, repositories, middleware, routes, config, types) to keep code maintainable as it grows.
- Production-grade request pipeline: Authentication/authorization middleware, input validation with Zod/Joi-style schemas, rate limiting (optionally Redis-backed), and consistent request logging.
- Reliable error handling: Custom operational error classes plus a global error handler and async error wrapper to avoid unhandled promise issues.
- Database & auth foundations: SQL connection pooling patterns (PostgreSQL/pg), MongoDB connection patterns, transactions, JWT auth with access/refresh tokens, caching with Redis, and standardized API responses.
Quick Start
Use the nodejs-backend-patterns skill to scaffold an Express or Fastify REST API design for a production environment with authentication, validation, rate limiting, database integration, and a consistent error/response format.
