After gaining some knowledge about NodeJS, I am now eager to develop a large enterprise application using it. However, I am uncertain about how to properly structure the project. Having experience with languages like PHP and Java, my initial thought is to segment the project into different NPM modules such as @mybigproject/customer, @mybigproject/cart, @mybigproject/checkout, etc.
The dilemma lies in the fact that these submodules would be installed in the node_modules folder of the application skeleton. How do I notify Express, for instance, about the location of template files within different module directories? Also, if I use TypeORM for data access, each submodule would have its own set of models. How can these models access the database configuration information which is present only in the main application skeleton? Conversely, how should the application skeleton know where to locate these models?