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Nest.js: A Progressive Node.js Framework

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

Passport

Passport is a well known library that is popular and flexible to use. In fact, passport is flexible middleware that can be fully customized. Passport allows different ways to authenticate a user like the following:

  • local strategy that allows you to authenticate a user just with it’s own data email and password in most cases.
  • jwt strategy that allows you to authenticate a user by providing a token and verifying this token using jsonwebtoken. This strategy is used a lot.

Some strategies use the social network or Google in order to authenticate the user with a profile such as googleOAuth, Facebook, or even Twitter.

In order to use passport you have to install the following package: npm i passport. Before you see how to implement the authentication, you must implement the userService and the userModel.