NestJS Zero to Hero – Modern TypeScript Back-end Development

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