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Nest.js: A Progressive Node.js Framework

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

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.
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Modelling our data

Probably the best thing about using an ORM is that you can take advantage of the modelling abstraction that they provide: basically, they allow us to think about our data and to shape it with properties (including types and relations), generating “object types” (and plugging them to databases tables) that we can then use and manipulate as direct interfaces.

This abstraction layer saves you from writing database-specific code like queries, joins, etc. A lot of people love not having to struggle with selects and the like; so this abstraction layer comes in handy.

Our first entity

When working with TypeORM, this object abstractions are named entities.

An entity is basically a class that is mapped to a database table.

With that said, let’s create our first entity, which we will name Entry. We will use this entity to store entries (posts) for our blog. We will create a new file at src/entries/entry.entity.ts; that way TypeORM will be able to find...

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