Nest.js boilerplate

Node.js Nest.js API with TypeScript 5. Supports MongoDB, Redis, Passport, Swagger and more.

Description

This Template will help you to build your own Nest.js Mongodb API using TypeScript 5. skip the boiler plate and start creating you rproject

Project Introduction

• Support ES6/ES7 features
• Using Eslint followed Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide
• Husky
• Commitizen
• MIT license and Code of conduct
• Docker
• Prettier
• Jest because testing matters
• Typescript for coding with static type checking
• Mongodb And Redis admin panel

Features

Authentication:

• passport local strategy
• jwt authentication
• passport google 2.0 strategy

Session Storage:

• MongoDB
• Redis

Integration testing

• mocha
• chai
• supertest

Requirements

• node >= 18
• yarn >= 1.22
• mongodb >= 4.0
• typescript >= 5.0

Installation

First, install Yeoman and generator-nest-js-boilerplate using npm (we assume you have pre-installed node.js).

npm install -g yo
npm install -g generator-nest-js-boilerplate

Then generate your new project:

yo nest-js-boilerplate

App Skeleton

├── src
│├── components
││├── app
│││   └── ...
││├── auth
│││   └── ...
││└── users
││    └── ...
│├── dto
││└── ...
│├── filters
││└── ...
│├── guards
││└── ...
│├── main.ts
│└── pipes
│    └── ...
├── docker-compose.yml
├── index.js
├── nest-cli.json
├── package.json
├── package-lock.json
├── README.md
├── tsconfig.build.json
└── tsconfig.json

Running the API

Development

To start the application in development mode, run:

yarn start:dev

Start the application in production env:

Install ts pm2 and typescript compiler:

yarn add pm2 --global
yarn add typescript

example start with scale on 2 core:

pm2 start ./dist/main.js -i 2 --no-daemon

Express server listening on http://localhost:3000/, in development mode The developer mode will watch your changes then will transpile the TypeScript code and re-run the node application automatically.

Testing

To run integration tests:

yarn test

Docker

• Install Docker
• Install docker-compose

To run your app in docker containers choose "Yes" when the generator asks you about docker.

Now, lift up your app in docker

  docker-compose up -d

Set up environment

In root folder you can find .env. You can use this config or change it for your purposes.

Swagger

Swagger documentation will be available on route:

http://localhost:3000/api

Jwt auth

Oauth2 auth

• update the .env file with your googel keys
• go to http://localhost:3000/auth/google route, google'll ask you to authorize into your account. After successfully sign in to your account you will be redirected to http://localhost:3000/auth/google/redirect route