NestJS Zero to Hero - Modern TypeScript Back-end Development
What you'll learn
- Becoming familiar with the NestJS framework and its components
- Designing and developing REST APIs performing CRUD operations
- Authentication and Authorization for back-end applications
- Using TypeORM for database interaction
- Security best practices, password hashing and storing sensitive information
- Persisting data using a database
- Deploying back-end applications at a production-ready state to Amazon Web Services
- Writing clean, maintainable code in-line with industry standards
- Utilising the NestJS Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Using Postman for testing back-end services
- Using pgAdmin as an interface tool to manage PostgreSQL databases
- Implement efficient logging in a back-end application
- Environment-based configuration management and environment variables
- Implementing data validation and using Pipes
- Guarding endpoints for authorized users using Guards
- Modelling entities for the persistence layer
- TypeScript best practices
- Handling asynchronous operations using async-await
- Using Data Transfer Objects (DTO)
- Hands-on experience with JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
- Unit testing NestJS applications
- Using GraphQL with NestJS
- Database persistence with MongoDB
Course content
- Preview00:54
- 01:59What is NestJS?
- 00:10Installing Node.js and NPM
- 00:20Installing Yarn
- Preview02:04
- 00:12Installing Postman
- 00:17(Optional) Installing Visual Studio Code
Requirements
- Having a basic understanding of JavaScript and/or NodeJS
- Having basic knowledge of TypeScript is recommended, but not required
Description
NestJS is a Node.js back-end development framework built upon Express, leveraging the power of TypeScript.
NestJS leverages the incredible popularity and robustness of JavaScript as a language and Node.js as a technology. It is inspired by common libraries and frameworks such as Angular, React and Vue which improve developer productivity and experience.
Even considering the amount of superb libraries, helpers and tools that exist for server-side Node.js, none of them effectively solve the main problem - the architecture of an application.
NestJS provides an out-of-the-box application architecture which allows developers and teams to create highly testable, scalable, loosely coupled and easily maintainable applications.
Recently, the NestJS framework is gaining extreme popularity due to its incredible features;
Leverages TypeScript - strongly typed language which is a super-set of JavaScript
Simple to use, easy to learn and easy to master
Powerful Command Line Interface (CLI) tool that boosts productivity and ease of development
Detailed, well-maintained documentation
Active codebase development and maintenance
Open-source (MIT license)
Supports dozens nest-specific modules that help you easily integrate with common technologies and concepts such as TypeORM, Mongoose, GraphQL, Logging, Validation, Caching, Websockets and much more
Easy of unit-testing applications
Made for Monoliths and Micro-services (entire section in the documentation regarding the Microservice type of a NestJS application, as well as techniques and recipes).
In this course I am going to guide you through the process of planning, developing and deploying a fully-featured back-end application, based on my experience developing and maintaining systems that support dozens of millions of concurrent users at scale.
Who this course is for:
- Intermediate JavaScript developers who want to dive into back-end development
- Any developers willing to apply TypeScript on the back-end
- Developers eager to learn how to develop performant, secure and production-ready REST APIs following best practices
- Developers who want to learn how to deploy their application to the cloud (Amazon Web Services)
- Developers who want to follow building a practical, real-world application from zero to production
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Instructor
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I am a passionate Software Engineer with years of experience in front- and back-end development.
Currently, I work as aa Software Engineering Manager at OneFit. Previously, Senior Software Engineer at DAZN, delivering service at scale to dozens of millions of concurrent users all across the globe.
Past experience working in the Financial Technology (FinTech) sector for Payconiq, where I had to develop and maintain key systems for the smooth operation of the BeNeLux payment solution, handling lots of concurrent payments at a time.
I also worked as an engineer for the defense industry, mainly around air intelligence VISINT (Visual Intelligence) systems mounted on airplanes.
Apart from that, I have always been a fan of teaching and mentorship. I have mentored countless mentees in software engineering - guiding, coaching and setting them up for success as an engineer.
I have profiles on several mentorship platforms where I maintain a solid 5-star rating.