nestjs/typescript-starter

Nest framework TypeScript starter ☕

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A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient and scalable server-side applications.

Description

Nest framework TypeScript starter repository.

Project setup

$ npm install

Compile and run the project

# development
$ npm run start

# watch mode
$ npm run start:dev

# production mode
$ npm run start:prod

Run tests

# unit tests
$ npm run test

# e2e tests
$ npm run test:e2e

# test coverage
$ npm run test:cov

Deployment

When you're ready to deploy your NestJS application to production, there are some key steps you can take to ensure it runs as efficiently as possible. Check out the deployment documentation for more information.

If you are looking for a cloud-based platform to deploy your NestJS application, check out Mau, our official platform for deploying NestJS applications on AWS. Mau makes deployment straightforward and fast, requiring just a few simple steps:

$ npm install -g @nestjs/mau
$ mau deploy

With Mau, you can deploy your application in just a few clicks, allowing you to focus on building features rather than managing infrastructure.

Observability

In production applications, observability is essential for understanding how your system behaves, detecting issues early, and maintaining reliable performance.

NestJS Observe automatically instruments your NestJS application, giving you deep visibility into your system with minimal setup:

Distributed tracing: Follow requests across services and understand how they flow through your system.
Waterfall analysis: Visualize request execution and identify slow operations, bottlenecks, and unexpected delays.
Performance analysis: Analyze application performance in real time and quickly pinpoint areas that need optimization.
Metrics: Track key application and infrastructure metrics to understand system health and performance trends.
Logging: Centralize and correlate logs with traces and other telemetry to make debugging easier.
Error tracking: Detect errors quickly and investigate their root causes with the surrounding context.
SLA monitoring: Track service-level objectives and identify when your application is approaching or exceeding defined thresholds.
Alarms and alerts: Set up alerts for critical errors, performance degradation, SLA violations, and other anomalies so your team can react quickly.

Resources

Check out a few resources that may come in handy when working with NestJS:

Visit the NestJS Documentation to learn more about the framework.
For questions and support, please visit our Discord channel.
To dive deeper and get more hands-on experience, check out our official video courses.
Deploy your application to AWS with the help of NestJS Mau in just a few clicks.
Auto-instrument your application with NestJS Observe. Distributed tracing, metrics, and logging made easy. Error tracking and performance monitoring for your NestJS applications.
Visualize your application graph and interact with the NestJS application in real-time using NestJS Devtools.
Need help with your project (part-time to full-time)? Check out our official enterprise support.
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Support

Nest is an MIT-licensed open source project. It can grow thanks to the sponsors and support by the amazing backers. If you'd like to join them, please read more here.