NestJS Zero to Hero – Modern TypeScript Back-end Development

Develop and deploy enterprise back-end applications following best practices using Node.js and TypeScript

Created by: Ariel Weinberger
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What Will I 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

Requirements

• Having a basic understanding of JavaScript and/or NodeJS
• Having basic knowledge of TypeScript is recommended, but not required

Target audience

• 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