I thought of this idea when recalling my past experiences at hackathons. When time is extremely limited, you should not be wasting time on building an application architecture. You should be spending all of your time on building features.

With generator-egress, you can simply run "yo egress" from the command line, give it a site name, author, and description. After generation and setting your Postgres credentials, you have an express based web app in seconds with: user account join/login functionality, and password encryption via bcrypt.

Last Friday I "released" v0.1.0 of generator-egress. On top of my very busy work and school schedule, I was able to build an MVP of a web app in exactly 6 days (10-15 hours total) of development - most of that time was building a database schema and writing SQL queries.

Some other features I'd like to add to egress are supporting different databases, theme customization (currently using vanilla Bootstrap), better error handling, and better input validation.

Please take a look at generator-egress. I'd love to hear some feedback on whether or not this is useful for you, and ways I can improve upon it.

Thanks for reading!

-Shakeel