NestJS Zero to Hero – Modern TypeScript Back-end Development

What you’ll learn

• Becoming familiar with the NestJS framework and its components
• Designing and developing REST APIs performing CRUD operations
• Authentication and Authorization for back-end applications
• Using TypeORM for database interaction
• Security best practices, password hashing and storing sensitive information
• Persisting data using a database
• Deploying back-end applications at a production-ready state to Amazon Web Services
• Writing clean, maintainable code in-line with industry standards
• Utilising the NestJS Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Using Postman for testing back-end services
• Using pgAdmin as an interface tool to manage PostgreSQL databases
• Implement efficient logging in a back-end application
• Environment-based configuration management and environment variables
• Implementing data validation and using Pipes
• Guarding endpoints for authorized users using Guards
• Modelling entities for the persistence layer
• TypeScript best practices
• Handling asynchronous operations using async-await
• Using Data Transfer Objects (DTO)
• Hands-on experience with JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
• Unit testing NestJS applications
• Using GraphQL with NestJS
• Database persistence with MongoDB

Requirements

• Having a basic understanding of JavaScript and/or NodeJS
• Having basic knowledge of TypeScript is recommended, but not required

Description


NestJS is a Node.js back-end development framework built upon Express, leveraging the power of TypeScript.

NestJS leverages the incredible popularity and robustness of JavaScript as a language and Node.js as a technology. It is inspired by common libraries and frameworks such as Angular, React and Vue which improve developer productivity and experience.

Even considering the amount of superb libraries, helpers and tools that exist for server-side Node.js, none of them effectively solve the main problem – the architecture of an application.

NestJS provides an out-of-the-box application architecture which allows developers and teams to create highly testable, scalable, loosely coupled and easily maintainable applications.

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