Awesome NestJS

A curated list of awesome things related to NestJS

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Contents

• Resources
• Projects using NestJS
• Components & Libraries
• Testing
• Integrations
• Runtime
• Meetups
• Contribute
• License

Resources

Official Resources

• Website
• Official Guide
• GitHub Repo
• Examples
  • Nest Starter - Nest framework TypeScript starter.
  • JavaScript Starter - Nest framework JavaScript (ES6 / ES7 / ES8) starter.

Community

• Discord
• Telegram (community maintained)
• Telegram (Brazilian Portuguese speak community)
• Telegram (Russian speak community)
• Telegram (Ukrainian speak community)
• Slack (Korean speak community)
• Reddit (community maintained)
• Facebook (Polish speak community)

Talks

• Revealing framework fundamentals: NestJS behind the curtain by Kamil Myśliwiec

Tutorials

• NestJS content on Dev.to: articles made by the core team; articles made by the community.
• Blog of Trilon (NestJS creator's company).
• NestJS30Days - Learn the NestJS framework in 30 days.
• Build a geofencing web app using NestJS and the Google Maps API
• Build live comments with sentiment analysis using NestJS
• Build a chat app with sentiment analysis using NestJS
• Create a realtime graph using NestJS
• Build a realtime table with DataTables and NestJS
• NestJS Basic Auth and Sessions
• NestJS Hasura Integration via Schema Stitching And JWT Auth
• MEAN Stack with NestJS and Swagger
• YouTube playlist by Kelvin Mai: NestJS Ideas API - A project based course on Full Stack Typescript covering NestJS, GraphQL PostgreSQL, Angular and NgRx.
• Building a real time web applications using NestJS and Ably
• YouTube playlist by Codeforges TM: Angular + NestJs Tutorials - Building a full-stack blog with NestJS, Angular and Angular Material.
• Udemy free course: The complete NestJS developer. Enterprise Node.js framework - The complete guide for developers how to create enterprise ready applications using NestJS framework.

Examples

• ChatServer - Server side of Chat App implemented using NestJS.
• Domain Driven Design - Library - Example of an application that follows Domain Driven Design.
• Realworld Example App - Exemplary real world backend API built with NestJS + TypeORM.
• Mant - New Stack on the Market to beat them all 💍 MANT.
• REST NestJS Postgres - CrudJS implemented as a REST API, using NestJS and Postgres.
• Nest Permissions Seed - A simple application demonstrating the basic usage of permissions with NestJS.
• Angular NestJS Rendering - Angular 5+ server side rendering using NestJS.
• Angular Contact Manager App - A Contact Manager App using Angular, NestJS, Mongoose, Passport, JWT.
• Books Library API - A restful API with NestJS and mongoose.
• Passport Auth NestJS - Passport strategies and oauth integration built with NestJS.
• NestJS Auth0 - An example NestJS application that uses Auth0 via Passport for authentication.
• Nest Ideas API - An implementation of a REST and GraphQL server built with NestJS, PostgresQL and TypeORM.
• Nestcloud Starter - Quickly start a micro-service app use nestcloud.
• Nodepress - A RESTful API server application for Blog CMS.
• Serverless-Lambda-DynamoDB - A fully SERVERLESS in-production application with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, DynamoDB Streams.
• Serverless-Lambda-FirestoreDB - A fully SERVERLESS in-production application with AWS Lambda, FirestoreDB, Firebase Auth, Winston Logger, Swagger. Also implements admin role authorization.
• Serverless NestJS TypeOrm - Example how to NestJS using the serverless framework with TypeORM.
• Passport Email Auth - Starter project that includes API for user email authentication with MongoDB and PassportJs.
• NestJS Project Structure - Example of constructing a project structure with NestJS.
• NestJS Elasticsearch Vue - Autocomplete search with NestJS, Elasticsearch and Vue.
• TypeScript Clean Architecture - Clean Architecture based application with NestJS, PostgreSQL and TypeORM.
• NestJS Api Mongoose - Simple example Api Rest with Nestjs 8.x and Mongoose

Boilerplate

• 🧪 Fully tested NestJS Prisma Clean Architecture Boilerplate - This boilerplate shows how to test your NestJS API with unit, integration and e2e tests. Use-cases are written in functionnal programming with FP-TS.
• NestJS Permission Boilerplate - This is a basic NestJS boilerplate project built on the more powerful Node.js framework. The main purpose of this project is to dynamically handle roles and permissions assigned to the user.
• SQB NestJS Boilerplate - A production-ready 🏭 NestJS boilerplate with batteries 🔋 included. No Kidding!.
• Nest BFF - A boilerplate BFF web application starter-project using NestJS. Includes CLI, and MongoDB migrations features.
• NestJS Template - Scaffold your next TypeScript API with this production-ready NestJS template crafted for Docker environments.
• MEAN Todo with NestJS - A simple Todo application with NestJS and Swagger. Included Authorization/Authentication.
• NestJS Boilerplate - Boilerplate with available authentication, typeorm, env configuration and swagger. Everything you need to start making great things.
• Awesome Nest Boilerplate - Typescript, Postgresql, TypeORM, Swagger for Api documentation, Role base access control, and best application architecture.
• NestJS Prisma Starter - Starter project for NestJS includes Graphql with Prisma Client, Passport-JWT authentication, Swagger Api and Docker.
• TeanJS - TeanJS is a starter that provides you all the keys to be able to start writing your code as quickly as possible.
• NestJS DDD Boilerplate - Domain Driven Design Base app with NestJS, Class Validator and TypeORM. SOLID principles applied to create fully testable applications.
• Nest Mongo Graphql - Starter Kit using NestJS MongoDB Graphql and type-graphql inspired the type schema first approach.
• Ultimate Backend - Enterprise multi-tenant SaaS starter kit with CQRS GraphQL microservice architecture, apollo federation, event source and authentication.
• NestJS GraphQL Boilerplate - Dockerized API boilerplate with NestJS, TypeORM, TypeGraphQL, MongoDB, GraphQL and automated tasks with Makefile. Code first approach.
• NextJS & NestJS GraphQL Starter - GraphQL NestJS with NextJS boilerplace. Includes GitHub, Reddit & Google OAuth.
• The Knests Stack - Full stack/end starter with: PostgreSQL, Knex.js, NestJS, Next.js, GraphQL, React, Material-UI, Docker multistage images for, Docker compose and a GitLab CI/CD pipeline fully configured.
• Nest Hackathon Starter - Hackathon starter project for NestJS. Includes Prisma, email verification, Passport-JWT authentication, Swagger and more.
• Stator - A full-stack boilerplate that does it all - automatic releases, deployments, enforced conventions.
• NestJS REST Starter Kit - By MonstarLab - Features: JWT Auth, RBAC Authorization, TypeORM, winston logger, Pagination, Auto-generated Swagger. Other: prettier, commit-linting husky hooks, SonarCloud, docker-compose.
• NestJS Api Boilerplate JWT - An API Boilerplate to create a ready-to-use REST API in seconds with NestJS + TypeORM and Passport Auth JWT.
• NestJS REST API boilerplate for typical project - Boilerplate with Auth, TypeORM, PostgreSQL, Mailing, I18N, Docker, File uploads (support local and Amazon S3 drivers), Swagger, Tests, CI.
• NestJS and Prisma Yarn Monorepo Starter Template - Full-stack monorepo starter (Yarn workspaces) with Prisma, GraphQL, CI and more.
• Truthy NestJS Headless CMS - Open source headless CMS API written using NestJS, that has built-in modules like User Management, Role Management, Permission Management, Email Module, Account Settings, 2FA settings, Throttling, RBAC support, Localization, frontend application written with ReactJS & Redux Saga, UI built with Ant design and many more. Other: unit test using Jest, prettier, commit-linting husky hooks, PostgreSQL, Redis, docker etc.
• NestJS Realtime Chat - Boilerplate for a realtime chat based on Websockets, TypeORM, PostgreSQL, REST, Docker which includes PassportJS/JWT auth, rooms, kick/ban user functionality
• Nest Sequelize JWT - Starter kit Nest + Sequelize + jwt.
• Nest sequelize-typescript - Nest + sequelize-typescript + JWT + Jest + Swagger.
• Samchon Backend - Template project for NestJS which utilizes Nestia, Safe-TypeORM and PostgreSQL. It supports developers to follow the TDD (Test Driven Development) and BDD (Behavior Driven Development) principles. Documents are well-formed and additional example projects are provided.
• NestJS Starter - Starter for BFF, MS and API Rest with NestJS, scalable by environments with centralized configuration to use GitOps, CI/CD with GitHub Actions, Dockerization, Conventional commits, versioning, etc... and much more.
• NestJS HTTP Boilerplate - A template for NestJS, Fastify, Typegoose, Vitest, custom Logger implementation, Redis and more, fast and simple boilerplate.
• Ultimate NestJs - Nestjs template with Mikroorm, postgres, i18n , twilio, CI/CD with Github actions, conventiona commits with cz and husky, caching, mailer , sentry. Extended ESLint config for best practices. Also has nest's new repl added
• Zen NestJS Prisma Apollo Angular Starter - An Nx monorepo for creating user portals as a progressive web application. Zen integrates the most widely adopted dependencies within the NestJS, Prisma, Apollo & Angular eco-systems. Code generating the entire data access layer for you.

Projects using NestJS

Open Source

• Ever® - Open-Source Commerce Platform for On-Demand Economy and Digital Marketplaces.
• Feednext - Open-Source Social Media Application.
• Gauzy - Open-Source Profits Sharing Platform for modern agencies and studios.
• LXDhub - Management system for Linux Containers (LXC).
• Notadd - Microservice development architecture.
• Pimp My PR - Open-Source platform for statistics and pull request management.
• ToolJet - ToolJet is the open-source low-code framework alternative to Retool & Mendix to build & deploy internal tools with minimal engineering effort. (Source Code) GPL-3.0
• Vendure - Open-Source headless GraphQL ecommerce framework built on NestJS, with a focus on developer productivity and ease of customization.
• iola - Socket client with Rest API.
• Amplication - Amplication is an open-source low-code devtool that auto-generates backend apps built with TypeScript and Node.js, and a client built with React.

Components & Libraries

Utilities

• @nestjs/cqrs - A lightweight CQRS module for Nest framework.
• @nestjs-architects/typed-cqrs - A wrapper for the Nest CQRS library for better typing of query and command results.
• nestjs-config - A Great module to handle project configurations.
• nest-typed-config - Intuitive, type-safe configuration module for Nest framework.
• @nestcloud/cli - A Node.js micro-service solution based on Consul, writing by Typescript language and NestJS framework.
• nestjs-easyconfig - A NestJS module for managing configs that provides some sleek features.
• nest-schedule - Schedule job easier by decorator.
• nest-queue - Easy queue management based on Redis for your application.
• NestJS Toolbox - The repository contains a suite of components and modules for NestJS.
• nestjs-multer-extended - Extended MulterModule for NestJS framework with flexible Amazon S3 upload and helpful features.
• nestjs-cls - A continuation-local storage module for Nest (using async_hooks)
• nestjs-http-promise - A Promise-based alternative to @nestjs/axios, with retries feature using axios-retry and axios.
• nestia-helper: Boost up JSON.stringify(), of the API responses, 2x times faster.
• NestJS Toolkit - This toolkit is intended to be used in NestJs Starter, or any project that uses a centralized configuration, following the same architecture of the starter. Pks: http-client, typeorm, redis, filter exceptions, test utilities with test containers.

Code Style

• StyleGuide and Coding Conventions - An unofficial TypeScript StyleGuide.

Web Sockets

• @nestjs/websockets

Redis

• @nestjs-modules/ioredis - A ioredis module for Nest framework.
• @liaoliaots/nestjs-redis - Redis(ioredis) module for NestJS framework.

Mail

• @squareboat/nest-mailman - The only 📮 mailer package you need for your NestJS Applications.
• @nestjs-modules/mailer - A mailer module for Nest framework.

API

• @nestjs/swagger - This's an OpenAPI (Swagger) module for Nest. [Tutorial].
• nestjs-asyncapi - AsyncAPI module for NestJS.
• @nestjs-query/* - Nest CRUD for GraphQL APIs.
• nestia - Automatic SDK and Swagger generator, evolved than ever.

Middleware

• @nest-middlewares/* - Common, injectable middlewares for NestJS.

Errors

• @squareboat/nest-eyewitness - Receive error reports directly to your inbox whenever any exception is witnessed 👀 in your NestJS application.
• nestjs-flub - Pretty Error 😫 Stack Viewer for NestJS Framework 🛠️.
• nestjs-enlighten - A laravel-ignition like error page for NestJS Framework.
• nestjs-rate-limiter - A highly configurable rate limiter library.
• nest-raven - Sentry Raven (@sentry/minimal) Module for NestJS Framework.

Lint

• eslint-plugin-nestjs - ESLint rules for NestJS framework.
• @darraghor/eslint-plugin-nestjs-typed - ESLint rules for NestJS framework.

Router🚦

• nest-router - Router Module For NestJS Framework 🚦 🚀 for organizing your Routes, creating a routes tree, and more.

Dialogflow 📡

• nestjs-dialogflow - Dialog flow module that simplify the web hook handling for your NLP application using NestJS.

Logging

• nest-winston - Winston module for NestJS.
• nestjs-pino - Pino module for NestJS Log with request context in any place.
• @ogma/* - A monorepo for the Ogma logger and related packages.

Monitoring

• @nestjs/terminus - Integrated healthchecks, based on Terminus package.
• @metinseylan/nestjs-opentelemetry - Deeply integrated NestJS OpenTelemetry module with auto instrumentations.
• nest-status-monitor - Simple, self-hosted module based on Socket.io and Chart.js to report realtime server metrics for NestJS based node servers.
• @narando/nest-xray - Record incoming and outgoing request for AWS X-Ray, also supports custom instrumentation.
• nestjs-otel - OpenTelemetry module for NestJS.

Internationalization (i18n)

• nestjs-i18n - Adds i18n support easily to your server, with a rich formatting api build in.

Currency

• nestjs-cashify - Currency conversion module for NestJS.

Event

• nest-event - Event handling with decorators for NestJS Framework.

Auth

• nestjs-session - Idiomatic Session Module for NestJS. Built on top of express-session.

RBAC (Role-based access control)

• nestjs-rbac - RBAC module for NestJS, with a dynamic storage and cache.
• nestjs-keycloak-admin - Keycloak Admin Client with support for User Managed Access protocol.
• nestjs-oso - Library that simplifies the implementation of OSO (open-source policy engine for authorization).

Multi Tenancy

• nestjs-mtenant - A module for NestJS to enable multitenancy support with deep integration into the system as whole (based on async_hooks).

Microservice

• nestjs-pg-notify - NestJS custom transport strategy for PostgreSQL Pub/Sub.
• nestjs-transport-eventbus - The module for Nest to allow broadcasting events via variety of nestjs trasports in easy way
• nestjs-google-pubsub-microservice - Custom Google Cloud Pub/Sub microservice transport

Database

• nestjs-prisma - Library and schematics adding Prisma integration to a NestJS application

Testing

Collections of examples

• Testing Nestjs - A repository to show off to the community methods of testing NestJS including Unit Tests, Integration Tests, E2E Tests, pipes, filters, interceptors, GraphQL, Mongo, TypeORM, and more!

Utilities

• @golevelup/ts-jest - Utilities for making testing NestJS applications easier. Currently supports Jest.
• mockingbird - A library to create typed tests fixtures/mocks using decorators and built-in faker support
• NestJS + Pact - Injectable Pact.js Consumer/Provider for NestJS

Integrations

Auth

• Nest + Auth0 - NestJS Framework web application with Auth0.
• @tfarras/nestjs-firebase-auth - NestJS Passport Strategy for Firebase Auth using Firebase Admin SDK

Databases

• @nestjs/typeorm - A TypeORM module for Nest framework [Tutorial].
• @nestjs/mongoose - A Mongoose module for Nest framework.
• typeorm-factories - A TypeORM Entities factories. Useful for NestJS unit testing.
• nest-transact - The simplest transactions using with Nest and TypeORM
• nestjs-typegoose - A Typegoose module for Nest framework.
• @mikro-orm/nestjs - A MikroORM module for Nest Framework.
• Nest Prisma - A Fully Type-Safe ORM for NestJS.

GraphQL

• @golevelup/nestjs-graphql-request - Easily inject and work with GraphQLClient instances from server side NestJS code. Useful for interacting with third party GraphQL APIs.
• @golevelup/nestjs-hasura - NestJS integrations for working with Hasura which provides realtime GraphQL APIs over your Postgres Database.

Pattern

• nestjs-typeorm-paginate - A simple function and interfaces for pagination.
• @jashkasoft/nestjs-json-rpc - JSON RPC transport layer for the NestJS framework.

Editors

• VSCode
  • NestJS Files - Quickly create NestJS Files.
  • NestJS Snippets - Vscode NestJS code Snippets.

AMQP

• nestjs-amqp - An amqp connection manager.
• nestjs-rmq - A custom library for NestJS microservice. It allows you to use RabbitMQ or AMQP.
• @golevelup/nestjs-rabbitmq - Flexible AMQP integrations for NestJS that supports multiple messaging patterns and intuitive decorators.

EventStore

• nestjs-geteventstore by PrestaShopCorp - An evenstore.org module for NestJS CQRS with Projects and Subscriptions. Supports Eventstore 21.10.0+
• @juicycleff/nestjs-event-store - An evenstore.org module for NestJS CQRS with adapter support to persist lastcheckpoint for Catchup subscription.

Payment Gateways

• nestjs-braintree - A module for webhooks and transactions.
• nestjs-stripe - A module for injecting a configured Stripe client into your services.
• @golevelup/nestjs-stripe - Injectable client plus autowired Stripe webhook handling for deeper integrations.

Frontend

• @fusionworks/ra-data-nest-crud - A React Admin data provider for NextJS CRUD.
• @adminjs/nestjs - NestJS plugin for AdminBro, an automatic admin interface which can be plugged into your application.
• @forestadmin/agent - NestJS compatible plugin for Forest Admin, an off-the-shelf administration panel based on a highly-extensible API plugged into your application.

Scheduling

• @nestjs/bull - A Bull module for Nest framework.

Workflow Automation

• nestjs-zeebe

Chatbots

• nestjs-telegraf - A module for creating Telegram bots using NestJS, based on Telegraf.
• necord - A module for creating Discord bots using NestJS, based on Discord.js.

File Storage

• @codebrew/nestjs-storage - A manage file storage module(flydrive) for NestJS Framework.

Cloud Managed Configuration

• @nonfig/nestjs-config - A module for Nonfig Configuration Management Service. Nonfig combines Configurations and Features. So you change features, and release swiftly, and measure to digital impact.

SDK

• @tfarras/nestjs-firebase-admin - NestJS Module for Firebase Admin SDK.

Runtime

Command Line / Terminal

• @nestjs/cli - CLI tool for NestJS applications.
• nest-commander - A module for using NestJS to build up CLI applications
• generator-nestjs-app - A yeoman generator for NestJS apps.
• nestjs-console - A NestJS module that provide a cli to application.
• nest-sdk-generator - A command-line utility to generate a fully typed SDK from a Nest.js REST API

Meetups

None at the moment.
Why not create a meetup and make a PR?

Contribute

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.

License

To the extent possible under law, juliandavidmr has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.