Why did you choose this framework? What research or reviews did you read, or what on the website made you want to use that framework?
We chose NestJS because we have seen it on job posts. We read & Watched:
https://docs.nestjs.com/
https://selleo.com/blog/why-choose-nest-js-as-your-backend-framework
https://medium.com/@gausmann.simon/nestjs-typeorm-and-postgresql-full-example-development-and-project-setup-working-with-database-c1a2b1b11b8f
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNosL578ECo
Compare and contrast to ExpressJS. Be opinionated, what did like/dislike?
https://selleo.com/blog/why-choose-nest-js-as-your-backend-framework
- NextJS is mainly Typescript
- NextJS uses TypeORM and optional Docker
- NextJS deploy to Heroku w/TypeORM is very difficult and we were unsuccessful.
- Express is a lot easier to deploy to Heroku
- NestJS has a lot of dependencies to configure correctly
- NestJS w/TypeORM has some helpful tools
Changing Frameworks means going through a lot of documentation.
Express is very easy to use
A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient and scalable server-side applications.
Nest framework TypeScript starter repository.
$ npm install# development
$ npm run start
# watch mode
$ npm run start:dev
# production mode
$ npm run start:prod# unit tests
$ npm run test
# e2e tests
$ npm run test:e2e
# test coverage
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- Author - Kamil Myśliwiec
- Website - https://nestjs.com
- Twitter - @nestframework
Nest is MIT licensed.