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Nest.js: A Progressive Node.js Framework

By : Greg Magolan, Patrick Housley, Adrien de Peretti, Jay Bell, David Guijarro
Book Image

Nest.js: A Progressive Node.js Framework

By: Greg Magolan, Patrick Housley, Adrien de Peretti, Jay Bell, David Guijarro

Overview of this book

Nest.js is a modern web framework built on a Node.js Express server. With the knowledge of how to use this framework, you can give your applications an organized codebase and a well-defined structure. The book begins by showing how to use Nest.js controllers, providers, modules, bootstrapping, and middleware in your applications. You’ll learn to use the authentication feature of Node.js to manage the restriction access in your application, and how to leverage the Dependency Injection pattern to speed up your application development. As you advance through the book, you'll also see how Nest.js uses TypeORM—an Object Relational Mapping (ORM) that works with several relational databases. You’ll use Nest.js microservices to extract part of your application’s business logic and execute it within a separate Nest.js context. Toward the end of the book, you’ll learn to write tests (both unit tests as well as end-to-end ones) and how to check the percentage of the code your tests cover. By the end of this book, you’ll have all the knowledge you need to build your own Nest.js applications.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Providers

Providers in Nest are used to create services, factories, helpers, and more that can be injected into controllers and other providers using Nest’s built-in dependency injection. The @Injectable() decorator is used to create a provider class.

The AuthenticationService in our blog application, for example, is a provider that injects and uses the UsersService component.

@Injectable()
export class AuthenticationService {
    constructor(private readonly userService: UserService) {}

    async validateUser(payload: {
        email: string;
        password: string;
    }): Promise<boolean> {
        const user = await this.userService.findOne({
            where: { email: payload.email }
        });
        return !!user;
    }
}

We’ll talk more about dependency injection in the the Dependency Injection chapter.