# developit/express-es6-rest-api

:battery: Starter project for an ES6 RESTful Express API.

Repository: https://github.com/developit/express-es6-rest-api
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/express-es6-rest-api
Homepage: http://git.io/express-es6-rest-api
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: cors, mongoose, express, es6, es2015, api, javascript, boilerplate
Last push: 2023-03-25T08:26:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4181, "days_push": 1257, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2439, forks 538 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:51.566607+00:00)

## What it is
A starter boilerplate for building RESTful APIs with Express and ES6 (via Babel) in Node.js. It includes CORS support, body parsing, REST resource middleware, and a Dockerfile for containerized deployment.

## Use cases
- scaffold a new express rest api in es6
- boilerplate for node.js api server
- quickly start a restful backend with cors
- dockerized express api starter project
- learn how to structure an es6 express api

## When to choose
- you want a minimal, batteries-included Express ES6 API starting point
- you need CORS and body parsing preconfigured out of the box
- you plan to deploy a Node API in Docker quickly

## When to avoid
- you need modern JavaScript without Babel (Node now supports ES modules natively)
- you want an actively developed framework with recent updates
- you need TypeScript or a full-featured framework like NestJS

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-framework, http-server, middleware, routing
- domain: web-development, backend, apis, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: express, rest-api, es6, babel, cors, mongoose, starter-template, javascript, boilerplate, nodejs, docker

## Member repositories
- developit/express-es6-rest-api (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:51.566607+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:31:50.014477+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/developit/express-es6-rest-api (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:51.566607+00:00, sha 33c6adffb942)
  - homepage: http://git.io/express-es6-rest-api (fetched 2026-08-29T10:12:29.687219+00:00, sha ff6b345fde3c)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/express-es6-rest-api (fetched 2026-08-29T10:12:29.696407+00:00, sha c554e81d649f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.