DartAPI CLI

DartAPI is a modular and developer-friendly CLI tool for building robust, typed REST APIs using the Dart language.
Rather than acting as a heavy, opinionated framework, DartAPI provides powerful code generation tools that let you build scalable backend applications with clean architecture, JWT authentication, request validation, and PostgreSQL/MySQL support.

📦 What It Does

✅ Project scaffolding (dartapi create)
✅ Controller generation (dartapi generate controller)
✅ Hot-reload style dev server with keyboard controls (dartapi run)
✅ Integrated with:

🚀 Installation

Activate globally:

dart pub global activate dartapi

📁 CLI Commands

`dartapi create <project_name>`

Creates a full DartAPI project with:

bin/main.dart
Controllers (UserController, AuthController, ProductController)
Middleware (logging, auth)
JWT setup with dartapi_auth
DB support with dartapi_db
DTOs and validation helpers
Auto schema definitions for future Swagger support

`dartapi generate controller <Name>`

Adds a controller to an existing DartAPI project:

dartapi generate controller Product

Generates lib/src/controllers/product_controller.dart with GET and POST methods and proper typing.

`dartapi run --port <port>`

Runs your DartAPI server using bin/main.dart.
You can control it interactively:

Type :q to quit
Type r to reload

dartapi run --port=8080

🧪 Example Usage

dartapi create my_app
cd my_app
dart pub get
dartapi run --port=8080

Now open Postman and test /users or /auth/login.

🧱 Generated Project Structure

my_app/
├── bin/
│   └── main.dart
├── lib/
│   └── src/
│       ├── core/           # Server/router setup
│       ├── controllers/    # UserController, AuthController, etc.
│       ├── dto/            # DTOs with schema
│       ├── db/             # DB connection logic
│       ├── middleware/     # Auth/logging middleware
│       └── utils/          # Validation, helpers
├── pubspec.yaml
└── analysis_options.yaml

✅ Why Use DartAPI?

Minimal but powerful
Follows clean architecture principles
Type-safe routing using ApiRoute<ApiInput, ApiOutput>
Built-in JWT auth and DB integration
Ready to extend with OpenAPI/Swagger

📄 License

🌐 Links

📦 Pub.dev: dartapi
🛠️ GitHub: github.com/akashgk/dartapi