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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)

Create a model

After having set up the sequelize connection, we have to implement our model. As seen in the previous section, we tell Sequelize that we will have the User model using this method sequelize.addModels([User]);.

You now see all of the required features to set up it.

@Table

This decorator will allow you to configure our representation of the data, and here are some parameters:

{

    timestamps:  true,
    paranoid:  true,
    underscored:  false,
    freezeTableName:  true,
    tableName:  'my_very_custom_table_name'
}

The timestamp parameter will tell you that you want to have an updatedAt and deletedAt columns. The paranoid parameter allows you to soft delete data instead of removing it to lose your data. If you pass true, Sequelize will expected a deletedAt column in oder to set the date of the remove action.

The underscored parameter will automatically transform all of the camelcase columns into underscored columns.

The freezTableName will provide a way...