Personal website backend

A modern, high-performance REST API built with Node.js 24, Express, and ESM. This project leverages Biome for lightning-fast linting/formatting and Vitest for a robust testing suite.

🚀 Tech Stack

• Runtime: Node.js v24
• Framework: Express.js (ESM)
• Package Manager: npm
• Linter/Formatter: Biome
• Test Runner: Vitest

🛠️ Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js v24.x or higher
• npm

Installation

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/Yanis-Kouidri/portfolio-backend.git
cd your-repo-backend

Install dependencies:

npm install

Configure environment variables:

cp .env.example .env

💻 Development

This project uses the native Node.js 24 watch mode and env-file support to minimize external dependencies like nodemon or dotenv.

Run locally

npm run dev

Tests

npm run test

See coverage

npm run test:coverage

Quality

npm run lint

Update deps

npx npm-check-updates