setup express boilerplate

backend/.gitignore

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 node_modules/
+.env

backend/drizzle.config.ts

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+import 'dotenv/config';
+import { defineConfig } from 'drizzle-kit';
+
+export default defineConfig({
+  out: './drizzle',
+  schema: './src/db/schema.ts',
+  dialect: 'postgresql',
+  dbCredentials: {
+    url: process.env.DATABASE_URL!,
+  },
+});
+

backend/package.json

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   "description": "rdumb-blog backend with expressts and drizzle orm",
   "main": "src/index.ts",
   "scripts": {
-    "test": "exit 0"
+    "start": "npx tsx --env-file=.env --watch  src/index.ts"
   },
   "author": "Roy Dumblauskas",
   "license": "ISC",

backend/src/index.ts

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+import 'dotenv/config';
+import { drizzle } from 'drizzle-orm/node-postgres';
+import express, { Request, Response } from "express";
+
+// Create a connection to the database
+const db = drizzle(process.env.DATABASE_URL!);
+
+// Create a new express application instance
+const app = express();
+
+// Set the network port
+const port = process.env.PORT || 3000;
+
+// Define the root path with a greeting message
+app.get("/", (req: Request, res: Response) => {
+  res.json({ message: "Welcome to the Express + TypeScript Server!" });
+});
+
+// Start the Express server
+app.listen(port, () => {
+  console.log(`The server is running at http://localhost:${port}`);
+});