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From: Stanley Masinde <stanmasinde@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 23:35:58 +0300
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-[![Build and test](https://github.com/StanleyMasinde/koa-template/actions/workflows/node.js.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/StanleyMasinde/koa-template/actions/workflows/node.js.yml) 
-## Koa Template
+# 🚀 Koa API Skeleton 🚀
 
-A Koa.js starter template for APIs
+[![Build and test](https://github.com/StanleyMasinde/koa-template/actions/workflows/node.js.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/StanleyMasinde/koa-template/actions/workflows/node.js.yml)
 
-Quick Start
-Coming soon
+A lightweight and robust Koa.js starter template designed specifically for building RESTful APIs. This template focuses on backend functionality, providing a solid foundation for your API projects without any frontend dependencies. It uses strict TypeScript for enhanced type safety and maintainability.
 
-#### Features
+**Quick Start**
 
-- Minimalistic Koa setup 
-- Efficient routing with `@koa/router`
-- Middleware for common tasks:
-    - Error handling
-    - Body parsing
-    - Static file serving
-- Environment-based configuration
-- Testing with Jest
-- Linting ESLint (Coming soon)
-- Prettier for code formatting (Coming soon)
+(Coming soon - detailed setup and usage instructions)
 
-#### Configuration
-Coming soon
+**Key Features ✨**
 
-#### Contributing
-Coming soon
+*   **Minimalistic Koa Setup:** Jumpstart your API development with a clean and concise Koa application structure.
+*   **Efficient Routing:** Define API endpoints effortlessly using `@koa/router`.
+*   **Essential Middleware:** Includes middleware for:
+    *   Error Handling ⚙️
+    *   Body Parsing (JSON, URL Encoded) 📦
+*   **Environment-Based Configuration:** Easily manage different configurations for development, production, and other environments. ⚙️
+*   **Robust Testing:** Built-in support for testing with Jest. 🧪
+*   **Database Interaction:** Integrated with Knex.js and a custom, minimal ORM for streamlined database access. 🗄️
+*   **Strict TypeScript:** Enforces strong typing for improved code quality and maintainability. ⌨️
 
-#### License
-Cosming soon
+**Planned Enhancements ✨**
+
+We're continuously working to improve the Koa API Skeleton. Here are some of the features we plan to add:
+
+*   **Core Enhancements:**
+    *   Authentication and Authorization (JWT/OAuth) 🔑
+    *   Input Validation (Joi/class-validator) ✅
+    *   Robust Logging (e.g. Winston/Pino) 🪵
+    *   API Documentation Generation (Swagger/OpenAPI) 📄
+*   **Development Experience Improvements:**
+    *   Debugging Configuration 🐞
+    *   Example Endpoints 🚦
+    *   Detailed Documentation 📖
+    *   Dockerization 🐳
+*   **Performance & Scalability:**
+    *   Caching (e.g. Redis) ⚡
+    *   Rate Limiting ⏱️
+    *   Health Checks ❤️‍🩹
+*   **Security Enhancements:**
+    *   Helmet 🛡️
+    *   CORS Configuration 🌐
+
+**Configuration**
+
+(Coming soon - detailed configuration options)
+
+**Database Setup**
+
+(Coming soon - details on setting up database connections with Knex.js)
+
+**Custom Minimal ORM**
+
+(Coming soon - explain the design and usage of the custom ORM)
+
+**Contributing 🙏**
+
+Contributions are welcome! (Contribution guidelines coming soon)
+
+**License 📜**
+
+This project is licensed under the MIT License.