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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)

Chapter 9. Microservices

Using Nest.js microservices, we are able to extract out part of our application’s business logic and execute it within a separate Nest.js context. By default, this new Nest.js context does not execute in a new thread or even a new process. For this reason, the name “microservices” is a bit misleading. In fact, if you stick with the default TCP transport, users may find that requests take longer to complete. However, there are benefits to offloading some pieces of your application to this new microservice context. To cover the basics, we will stick with the TCP transport, but look for some real-world strategies where Nest.js microservices can improve application performance in the Advanced Architecture section of this chapter. To see a working example, remember you can clone the accompanying Git repository for this book:

git clone https://github.com/backstopmedia/nest-book-example.git