NestJS Backend API

NestJS Backend Template

Tech Stack

• NodeJS 18.13
• NestJS 9
• Prisma
• MySQL 8
• Docker

Features

• NestJS Monolithic Application
• NestJS + Prisma Integration
• JWT Authentication / Authorization
• OpenAPI Documentation

References

• MVC Pattern - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller
• NestJS Documentation - https://docs.nestjs.com
• Prisma - https://www.prisma.io/docs/getting-started/setup-prisma/start-from-scratch/relational-databases-typescript-mysql
• NestJS CLI - https://docs.nestjs.com/cli/overview
• JWT Token - https://jwt.io/introduction
• NestJS Authentication - https://docs.nestjs.com/security/authentication
• NestJS Swagger (OpenAPI) Documentation - https://docs.nestjs.com/openapi/introduction
• NestJS setup Prisma - https://docs.nestjs.com/recipes/prisma#set-up-prisma
• Generate JWT Secret - openssl rand -base64 12

Documentation

Run in dev mode and open http://localhost:3000/docs

Development

cp .env.dev .env

docker-compose up

npx prisma db push

npx prisma generate

yarn start:dev

Sync database to Prisma

npx prisma db pull

Production

yarn build

yarn start:prod

How this project was setup?

nvm use 18

npm i -g @nestjs/cli

nest new nest-backend-template

cd nest-backend-template

yarn add @nestjs/config

nest g module auth

nest g controller auth

nest g service auth

nest g module users

nest g service users

yarn add @nestjs/jwt

and couple more commands and boilerplates