Backend Dev Guidelines
A comprehensive rulebook for Node.js/Express/TypeScript microservices that enforces layered architecture (routes to controllers to services to repositories). Activates when you're working with Express APIs, Prisma, Sentry, or Zod validation. The core is seven strict rules: routes only route, all controllers extend BaseController, all errors go to Sentry, never touch process.env directly (use unifiedConfig instead), validate everything with Zod, use repositories for data access, and write tests. Includes templates from their mature blog-api and auth-service implementations. Honestly this reads like internal team standards that got polished into a skill, which makes it actually useful if you're building similar microservices or want opinionated structure instead of reinventing patterns.
- skills.sh installs
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- last updated
- Aug 21, 2026
Install
$ npx -y skills add davila7/claude-code-templates --skill backend-dev-guidelines --agent claude-codeInstalls into .claude/skills of the current project.
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Backend Development Guidelines
Purpose
Establish consistency and best practices across backend microservices (blog-api, auth-service, notifications-service) using modern Node.js/Express/TypeScript patterns.
When to Use This Skill
Automatically activates when working on:
- Creating or modifying routes, endpoints, APIs
- Building controllers, services, repositories
- Implementing middleware (auth, validation, error handling)
- Database operations with Prisma
- Error tracking with Sentry
- Input validation with Zod
- Configuration management
- Backend testing and refactoring
Quick Start
New Backend Feature Checklist
- Route: Clean definition, delegate to controller
- Controller: Extend BaseController
- Service: Business logic with DI
- Repository: Database access (if complex)
- Validation: Zod schema
- Sentry: Error tracking
- Tests: Unit + integration tests
- Config: Use unifiedConfig
New Microservice Checklist
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- Repository
- github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates
- Categories
- Backend & APIs, Testing & QA, DevOps & CI/CD, Documentation, Code Review & Quality, Debugging, Databases
- First seen
- Jun 3, 2026
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