I got tired of writing Express.js boilerplate, so I built a CLI to do it for me. 🪓

Every time I started a new Node.js backend project, the first hour was exactly the same. Run npm init. Install Express, Mongoose, Cors, Dotenv. Create the src folder. Manually set up the database connection. Write the same JWT authentication controllers. Wire up the error handlers. It is incredibly repetitive, and as a developer, if I have to do something more than three times, I want to automate it. So, I built ForgeX — an interactive CLI engine that scaffolds production-ready, highly modular Express.js architectures in seconds. 📦 See it in action You can try it right now in your terminal without installing anything permanently: Bash npx forgex-generator@latest init (Or install it globally with npm install -g forgex-generator and just type forgex init) ⚡ What does it actually do? When you run the command, ForgeX asks you a series of interactive questions about your tech stack and then dynamically compiles a custom backend for you. Out of the box, it generates: Database & ORM setup: Ch