A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient and scalable server-side applications, heavily inspired by Angular. This template helps you start new applications, as used by Rokket Labs 🚀.
Description and Features
Nest framework TypeScript starter repository. It includes the following:
- Rokket Labs ESLint and Prettier preconfigured and ready to go!
- Dockerfile and Docker-Compose for easy deployment. Includes Terminus health checks for Kubernetes deployment.
- Express, Typegoose and GraphQL configuration out of the box.
- Socket.io (with Redis) and Email integration.
- Authentication (Passport and JWT) and Authorization (Roles and Guards) example.
- Working example with Users, Orders and Items, complete with schemas, tests and resolvers.
- Built with NestJS coding standards and suggestions.
Installation
$ yarnRunning the app
First, copy the .env.example file to .env and fill out your environment variables. Then, run the following commands:
# MongoDB and Redis
$ docker-compose up -d --build redis mongo
# Build and watch the server
$ yarn build
# On a different terminal window, run the server in development mode
$ yarn start
# or in production mode
$ yarn start:prodTest
# unit tests
$ yarn test
# e2e tests
$ yarn test:e2e
# test coverage
$ yarn test:covSupport
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.
How to contribute
If you'd like to contribute to this template, your help is more than welcome! 
Local testing
Fork this repository, clone it, and start a new app. After you tested your changes, create a PR to the develop branch.
Pull requests and Issues
PR's and issues are a great contribution for us, and we'll get to them as fast as we (humanly 🤖) can. Please create your pull requests from your own fork, and if you're raising an issue, try to be as descriptive as possible so we can zap those pesky bugs ⚡.
License
Nest is MIT licensed.