bhanditz / nest

A modern node.js framework for efficient and scalable web applications built on top of TypeScript.

Modern, powerful web application framework for Node.js.

Description

Nest is a powerful web framework for Node.js, which helps you effortlessly build efficient, scalable applications. It uses modern JavaScript, is built with TypeScript and combines best concepts of both OOP (Object Oriented Progamming) and FP (Functional Programming).

It is not just another framework. You do not have to wait for a large community, because Nest is built with awesome, popular well-known libraries - Express and socket.io! It means, that you could quickly start using framework without worrying about a third party plugins.

Installation

Git:

$ git clone https://github.com/kamilmysliwiec/nest-typescript-starter.git project
$ cd project
$ npm install
$ npm run start

NPM:

$ npm i --save @nestjs/core @nestjs/common @nestjs/microservices @nestjs/websockets @nestjs/testing reflect-metadata rxjs

Philosophy

JavaScript is awesome. This language is no longer just a trash to create simple animations in the browser. Right now, the front end world is rich in variety of tools. We have a lot of amazing frameworks / libraries such as Angular, React or Vue, which improves our development process and makes our applications fast and flexible.

Node.js gave us a possibility to use this language also on the server side. There are a lot of superb libraries, helpers and tools for node, but non of them do not solve the main problem - the architecture.

We want to create scalable, modern and easy to maintain applications. Nest helps us with it.

Features

• Easy to learn - syntax is similar to Angular
• Compatible with both TypeScript and ES6 (I strongly recommend to use TypeScript)
• Based on well-known libraries (Express / socket.io) so you could share your experience
• Supremely useful Dependency Injection, built-in Inversion of Control container
• Hierarchical injector - increase abstraction in your application by creating reusable, loosely coupled modules with type injection
• Own modularity system (split your system into reusable modules)
• WebSockets module (based on socket.io)
• Reactive microservices support with messages patterns (transport via TCP / Redis)
• Exceptions handler layer
• Testing utilities

Documentation & Quick Start

Documentation & Tutorial

Starter repos

• TypeScript
• Babel

Useful references

• Modules
• Examples
• API Reference

People

• Author - Kamil Myśliwiec
• Website - http://nestjs.com

License

MIT