Description

NestJs Microservice Template

1. Requirements

Before starting, make sure you have the minimum requirements on your workstation.

• An up-to-date release of NodeJS and Yarn (or npm)
• A MongoDb database (you may use the provided docker-compose file to create one).

2. Setup

2.1. Install the dependencies.

$ yarn

2.2. Make a copy of the example environment variables file.

For a standard development configuration, you can use the default values.

#On Linux systems
$ cp .env.example .env

# On Windows
$ copy .env.example .env

3. Run the app

# development
$ yarn run start

# watch mode
$ yarn run start:dev

# production mode
$ yarn run start:prod

You should now be able to access the swagger docs for the API at http://localhost:3001

HOST: http://localhost:3001

4. Folder Structure

.
├── ...
├── src     
│   ├── common              # Common app modules and utility (filters, pipes, models, etc)
│   │   ├── filters         # Common app filters
│   └── ...  
│   ├── config              # Configuration files go here
│   │   ├── validation      # .env validation handler
│   └── ...                 
│   ├── libs                # Standalone modules that might be transformed into a library and used in other microservices at some point
│   │   ├── database        # The database module
│   │   ├── ...             
│   └── ...  
│   ├── modules             # All the app modules reside here
│   │   ├── auth            # The Authentication module
│   │   ├── user            # The User module
│   └── ...
│   ├── app.module.ts       # The app module
│   ├── main.ts             # App entry point & bootstrap
│   └── ...                 
└── ...