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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)

A word about Mongoose

Mongoose is technically not an ORM (Object Relational Mapping) though it’s commonly referred to as one. Rather, it is an ODM (Object Document Mapping) since MongoDB itself is based in documents instead of relational tables. The idea behind ODM’s and ORM’s is the same, though: providing an easy-to-use solution for data modelling.

Mongoose works with the notion of “schemas.” A schema is simply an object that defines a collection (a group of documents) and the properties and allowed types of values that the document instances will have (i.e. what we would call “their shape.”).

Mongoose and Nest.js

Just like we saw in the TypeORM and the Sequelize chapters, Nest.js provides us with a module that we can use with Mongoose.