NestJS in 100 Seconds

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[@twert8756]

I would like to see a NestJS beyond 100 seconds 😁😁😁

[@saicharankr]

Same

[@stingalleman3936]

Fuck yeah

[@AbhishekBM]

Well this was actually 141 seconds long. So you've already got it.

[@vamshidharreddy5920]

Read the nestjs documentation

[@Kwuala]

Same 🔥🔥

[@malcolmgarner3409]

This channel is like crack to curious coders.

[@Joeballs187]

It's so good

[@rhettmelton]

That's quite the endorsement. I concur

[@raoufbensalem3417]

I love his video even if i will never use what he is talking about

[@RainMan52]

Meth.... ADHD on all them framworks

[@rafaelmarques1773]

Great catch, except you can learn something from doing crack and watching 2 minutes video only leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

[@aamirmushtaqsiddiqui3183]

I discovered Nest JS by mistyping NextJS 😅 Using nest ever since

[@HazemTamimi]

Best mistake ever!

[@viraj_singh]

when you were searching for something like react but you found something like angular and you liked it.

[@_modiX]

Isn't NestJS complementary to NextJS in a sense that NestJS provides a backend that I could use for a mobile app, while NextJS is the logic for the website itself? I don't think NestJS can provide SSG out of the box, can it?

[@sayamqazi]

@@_modiX Your comment is quite ironic in a sense that NestJS is used to make a server and you can simply return html pages from it. there is your SSR (well technically)

[@yaktd5704]

"How I met your mother"

[@safwanljd]

Ok you're just making up JS frameworks at this point

[@josermzte]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@azmialfoghi]

I thought of it.

[@agoogleuser3853]

Dreams if they were written in js

[@hemicar92]

This looks a lot like Angular for backend

[@socketbyte5348]

Yeah, and that's why I hate it.

[@rc3043]

yes, looks interesting

[@terrormapu]

More like Java Spring framework bro

[@rpolnx]

Yeah, the creator said that was inspired by angular

[@alejomakevids]

@@terrormapu exactly

[@detaaditya6237]

Wow so NestJS is like what if Angular and Laravel had a child

[@trusterzero6399]

Exactly, I love it man

[@punsmith]

That's it people, there is no better description!

[@wreak3r]

It's basically Rails but for JS. Which is a very good thing

[@muhammed8089]

More like Angular and Spring Combined ?

[@AmitYadav-rl6ff]

I can tell you that if you are verse in angular, you can start writing backend applications om day one

[@shanekelly6833]

Am I the only one that thinks this is very similar to Spring Boot for Java? Spring Boot in 100 seconds!

[@TheDragShot]

You are not alone.

[@ogookafor2137]

controller-service-repository-entities but for JS

[@malicious8909]

+1

[@abhinavsinghal5486]

so true, all annotations are exactly same as in springboot

[@RanjanKumar-bu7ws]

i feel the same and i think its NestJS is future for node js back-end

[@FlorianEagox]

Not to be confused with NextJS, NuxtJS, or FeathersJS

[@stopPlannedObsolescence]

is should be called like NangJs

[@bartekdurczak4085]

@@stopPlannedObsolescence notangularjs xD

[@calebmcnevin]

Love finding out about these things 5 seconds after I start working on a project that needs them!

[@garganourakis]

Exactly what’s happening with me as well. How does he do that? 😄

[@EidosX_]

I think it's a curse. Everything I learn, I needed to learn it 5 minutes ago

[@RafikBianconero]

Is it viable for production ? this is new i guess ?!

[@scottamolinari]

@@RafikBianconero It's been around for several years. Just went to version 8. It's well battle tested.

[@MrForgotten32]

its looks like spring boot mixed with angular, seems great.

[@anothermouth7077]

Exactly my thought. I was playing with it for little last year. As new kid on block it surprisingly has very good documentation

[@shreejanacharya8284]

I am a java developer and I work lots on spring boot. Recently I was looking into typescript and tried nestjs to develop a simple API for small project. I was amazed by the feature it has. All things that I do in spring boot, it has and its so easy and simple. With code you can achieve similar or more functionality than spring boot. Bravo!!! I am in love

[@harshwardhanshetty4683]

so did u switched ur job in nestjs?

[@shreejanacharya8284]

@@harshwardhanshetty4683 No. I do small projects in nestjs. But I am still working as a Java Developer. But it is very easy to work with nestjs with graphql

[@harshwardhanshetty4683]

@@shreejanacharya8284 thanks for the reply can i just know what kind of projects u did in nestjs?

[@shreejanacharya8284]

@@harshwardhanshetty4683 One of the project, I did on nestjs was human resource management for CA audit firm to assign auditor to the client.

[@harshwardhanshetty4683]

@@shreejanacharya8284 thanks

[@aamin89]

Spring js would have been the perfect name.

[@PhilipAlexanderHassialis]

ikr? as soon as I saw it I was like "omfg, again, every second statement begins with a @ and it has DI, and these are services and zomfg, no, No, *NO*, *NOT AGAIN* " :P

[@mohammadoulabi4212]

@@PhilipAlexanderHassialis well its actually cloning angular not spring, plus its very compatible with it

[@Amit-jb5xt]

Yes

[@jocke8277]

@@PhilipAlexanderHassialis felt the exact same. Never again

[@jocke8277]

just finished the video and omg it's even more similar than I first thought

[@anthonysalamanca4988]

As an Angular dev, this was fun to watch. "Ooh, the CLI works like Angular's!" "Oh wow, providers and injectables! This looks really similar." "... oh, so I basically know how to use this already? Neat!"

[@amenabe9842]

Angular Sucks

[@Stuntman5701]

@@amenabe9842 JavaScript sucks

[@amenabe9842]

@@Stuntman5701 you said it !!!

[@thelolladorfking2416]

NestJS is inspired by Angular architecture.

[@eus9]

@@Stuntman5701 Angular isn't written in JS

[@Qexia]

It's literally just Angular for back end. And I love it to death.

[@heinhtetzaw9463]

Spring for Javascript

[@TheDragShot]

Yes, welcome to MVC/REST with annotations. Good to see you guys finally made it.

[@javier.alvarez764]

lol Javascript developers becoming OOP and similar to Java. NestJS is just Spring Boot for Javascript.

[@hugazo]

Me: This is my stack, let's work. Also me: This looks interesting, i wonder how my stack would look with this.

[@nadeembhati6330]

Damn! I love how concisely you've described it. I was asked to do a hiring assignment with nestjs just two weeks ago and would've loved to find this then. PS: I got that job.

[@reyco1]

Need more NestJS tutorials Jeff Pleeeaassseeee!!!!!!

[@skylinefx049]

Why?

[@noname1999x]

@@skylinefx049 cause it's awesome

[@skylinefx049]

@@noname1999x no, it's not

[@PandaTheGFX]

@@skylinefx049 Why not?

[@PatricioHondagneuRoig]

@@skylinefx049 Yes, it fucking is 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@anupamdahal7029]

I have learnt a lot of new things that I have never worked with from your videos, like AWS, nginx, kubernetes, graphQL(and other dbs), typescript to name a few. One thing that I don't understand is how they work together. I would really love to see a video where you design a mock system using all of these (and possibly more) and explain each of their roles and why you chose it (kinda like your reverse-cloud migration video using raspberry pi). Whenever I think of a software architecture I think of them as several layers that interact with each other. However, I am unable to assign which layer what belongs to by watching a stand alone tutorial about a single tool. Btw, I am a college senior pursuing CS major and I love your content. Thanks for all the awesome contents

[@zzaakk1984]

Coding Garden might be good for you

[@antoruby]

Oh, you’re undergraduate, that puts the doubt in context. Once you work a few years you’ll see that many of these tools are just the same solution being reinvented over and over 😁

[@smartypantscoder6912]

I think you're stuck in tutorial hell. We all have been there. You need to apply your understandings in real projects now otherwise you'll forget everything and you'd never understand how these things integrate.

[@master0fnone]

Abssolutely Anupam I feel the same. Except you've managed to articulate it better than I could! Thank you and hopefully our shared interest gets uploaded!

[@aldi_nh]

@@antoruby but maybe all those years he is not working on web development? Like, you won't need nginx, typescript and graphql in game development, machine learning, or pretty much anything else

[@MonsterlessonsAcademy]

Here are some benefits of NestJS compared to Express/Koa etc: - It's a full framework and not just a webserver with routing and middlewares. Which means we don't need to build framework before we can use it - We get database ORM, controllers, models, migrations, seed data, services, modules and much more out of the box so we don't need to write it on our own - This is the first framework after SailsJS (which was never popular) which allow us to build things fast - Typescript out of the box allow us to build big scalable applications so I would say it's more for big apps and less for small projects - It uses DI and modules in the same way as Angular so if you know Angular it's much easier to understand NestJS

[@27sosite73]

молодець) увірвався розповів що до чого супепр!

[@muhrizqiardi]

I don't think ORM is included

[@murilomelo6752]

I'm subscribed to your channel too btw!

[@SunGod-887]

NestJs is not a replacement of Express, It uses Express as HTTP server by default.

[@RobertBMenke]

Nest is hands down my favorite framework. I’m so glad it got featured on this channel. Let’s keep the ecosystem growing!

[@agesnipes]

How does it compare to Laravel? If you have any experience in that?

[@ankitchoudhary3288]

Feels like someone tweaked the codebase of Angular over vodka shots 😂

[@marijnstapert9036]

So drunk he forgot he was working on a front-end framework

[@rishabhkalra9505]

Finally it's. Mentioned Been working with nest for almost 2 Years now and love every moment of it.

[@trusterzero6399]

I've had that exact experience. Its about time

[@rishabhkalra9505]

@@trusterzero6399 hahaha

[@basarat]

If you love angular, you will “definitely” love nest. If not, then you might not 🌹

[@aureltrouts]

Not the first time I've heard a lot of good things about NestJS. I feel like I watched "Spring... but with JavaScript in 100 seconds" :D I'm really really surprised by their likeness, wowowow ! This framework looks definitely the right one if some Java guys here (Spring Boot, Micronaut, Quarkus, ...) needs to take hands on server side JavaScript. Plus using TypeScript, even better... Java guys should all skip ExpressJS and directly start by NestJS.

[@chisangamumba2961]

Express is for charlatans.

[@chadkrause6574]

Wow this looks really cool! Like .NET Core and Angular combined

[@vba2256]

Amazing framework to work with. I implemented my thesis web application backend in NestJS so I had the opportunity to dive deep into NestJS and a lot of its libraries. Very nice application structure, TypeScript with its benefits, many libraries that can be used in various situations. Easy to learn (very similar to Angular), I would definitely go with NestJS instead of basic Express backend. Express is too minimalist and you have to implement many things from zero.

[@abhisheksuresh7837]

This is what you get when Angular and Springboot collide head on

[@CodingPhase]

you had me when you mentioned it was similar to laravel and rails but then..... eewww decorators.... this is too much like angular for my taste... I'll pass on this one. Thanks fireship

[@leonelnascimento5078]

Wow!! This framework resembles Spring MVC and a "backend version" of Angular.

[@AceixSmart]

more like Spring Boot but in JS/TS

[@xenon4602]

Yeah almost the same

[@webcodingoprogrammingtips2090]

exactly!

[@AceixSmart]

@@xenon4602 springboot + angular lool

[@xenon4602]

@@AceixSmart actually spring has dependency injection out of the box. Started my web dev from spring but nowadays spring is'nt used as much.

[@trollgg777]

@@AceixSmart but no java XD

[@Frank-do3om]

I've used Nest in production a few times and I can say it absolutely kicks ass. It blew my mind when I first heard about it, it blows my mind now how few projects exist like it

[@siapaayo7318]

ANGULAR + NESTJS + PRISMA was a perfect match especially if u love Typescript and TypeSafe

[@francoboaglio8807]

React with TS has way better type safety than angular IMO

[@hugodsa89]

@@francoboaglio8807 I like react better than angular but I think angular is much better equipped to use typescript than react

[@siapaayo7318]

@@francoboaglio8807 nah man it was cap, Angular is way better for TypeScript

[@sephirot7581]

@@siapaayo7318 Nope is not. Ofc at the first look it looks like because the class component style and overall it feels more natural for typescript. But if you looking at the template engine and overall then you will see that react is 100% type safe where angular cant reach this.

[@ninjaasmoke]

I've never used NestJS but I'm getting Angular flashbacks looking at it

[@Mooooov0815]

It basically is, they even describe it as being heavily inspired by angular

[@hankim1083]

Nest js is awesome! This technology is exactly ripe enough right now. We picked it at my current job to build all-new backend stuff with it. I've been building an API with it, and it's been amazing. You didn't mention anything about swagger though, which is another major point about nestjs. I am sure lots of devs could benefit from your in-depth view of this topic.

[@abh1yan]

007th Edit : A participation certificate would be enough and thanks for that information.

[@Fireship]

Participation medal 🏅

[@rejinraghavan7616]

This looks pretty cool.. Almost like a springbooot Java app

[@rc3043]

More like Angular married backend.

[@mateuslguilherme]

Nestjs + typeorm is like spring boot + spring data JPA all over again

[@nagarajansubramani]

Jeff, I'm in awe at just how you manage to pick up and master every single framework you cover in the 100s series. How do you ensure they don't fade from memory after a while?

[@nikilragav]

Anyone else find decorators really annoying especially when they actually have functionality

[@eloimartinez9446]

Need a tutorial about NestJS + Prisma :D

[@ransfordarthur4418]

that would be lit

[@GamingMad101]

Nestjs + typeorm’s probably worth consideration, since it integrates really well, and the whole thing works through decorators

[@kanterdev4340]

@@GamingMad101 I used to do this, but switched recently to NestJS + Prisma. It's really straightforward. Also @Eloi, both the nest and prisma docs discuss how to use them together. Iirc it's in the recipes section of the docs.

[@PatricioHondagneuRoig]

I support this, it would be really cool to see them integrate

[@eloimartinez9446]

@@kanterdev4340 I know, but i love how he explains the things

[@bopon4090]

I am suffering from js fatigue there is so many tools to choose from and learning all of them is nightmare.

[@xenon4602]

I have been wating for this 😍

[@ShlomiLevi972]

Why? why add complexity to nodejs? nodejs doesn't need DI it have module pattern builtin. and why need pipe? just get the data and return - that's it!

[@samjarman]

I'd love to see 100 seconds on JS/TS decorators. I've never felt the need to use them, what am I missing out on?

[@Barbara_Salesch]

You don't need them actually, unless you wanna make your Node app look like Java Spring at any cost aka NestJS :D

[@RajvirSingh1313]

I feel like speed god when i click on the notification before even my screen can render the pixel imao

[@andylu1267]

I would like to see Laravel in 100 seconds!!! thanks

[@mxo3212]

why

[@mohammadsiddiq6056]

how about you make one for AdonisJS? :)

[@sergiocebrian85]

NestJs is one of the best frameworks for NodeJs development. Framework brings its own architecture and is fast to create a new project. In addition, it incorporates some libraries to help you create a complete project.

[@antoruby]

Great, now nodejs can also have its own version of the Spring Decorator Oriented Programming.

[@NanoSpicer]

This is Angular if it was a backend framework 😂😂😂

[@lil_nach]

this implementation is almost identical to the .NET Core API approach

[@a.c.vermillion]

More like spring

[@BradPixelManH]

well it's MVC

[@megapixel23]

It’d be cool to know more about using Nest in server less environment

[@ischysyt]

I'm just a newbie programmer, I have no clue how to use 80% of the things I see in your videos "yet" but atleast I know those exists and X does Y. So those videos make me queue up more things to learn as I progress, thank you for the good content!

[@abdulrahmanrehmtulla3833]

I'd advise against learning many things at once. You'll be a much better programmer if you pick a stack and perfect your craft with it. Then when you're comfortable with building fully fledged systems with it you can learn new tools and technologies to augment your skills.

[@ischysyt]

@@abdulrahmanrehmtulla3833 Yes, thanks to someone else pointing this out on a blog post when I was about to start this journey, I am taking my time with CSS and JavaScript still, it's been almost 4 months now. But I can't wait to learn much more aswell

[@mostafaaguerram]

Finally, Nest JS, my favorite frameworks

[@matthewbeardsley7004]

What would alternatives to nestjs be? At the moment i have express app with MVC type structure, just wondering to try and change it to nestjs

[@ekekw930]

Loving NestJS! One question, I have vscode material icons but my icons show up like they're from angular instead of Nest, any way to fix this? :)

[@ekekw930]

Nevermind I found how, for anyone wondering, go to vscode settings and search for Material-icon-theme: Active Icon Pack and change it to nest.

[@jeffreyhuang0331]

I think Jeff's using vscode-icons in the video. marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vscode-icons-team.vscode-icons

[@lokeblaze]

Looks like combination of angular & spring rest

[@novelbafagih1155]

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS AMIZING VIDEO

[@phil86_]

Great MVC/OOP framework, like Laravel and Spring.

[@Wozza365]

Never been a fan of decorators, I think they're generally very confusing and unintuitive, especially those param decorators, never even seen those before...

[@Nerdilicious]

Wait so this is just node typescript version of C#/.NetFramework WebAPI's? Oh boy :D

[@miko-puk-puk]

Thought the same

[@XXnickles]

Totally agree. This is the same old concept in different package (heavy Classes, injection containers, pipelines and a bunch of decorators). I will be very surprised if the JS world goes towards this route, defeating the purpose of the language.

[@miko-puk-puk]

It's funny because in. NET 6 you can write simple API in node express style and here is Nest which looks similar to standard way of writing APIs in .NET

[@KevinBacheM]

This is great! I’d love to know more about how it handles GraphQL

[@erenjeager1756]

Nest + GraphQL + Prisma is like the most robust backend stack I have ever worked with. I definitely suggest you give it a try!

[@kegklaus5069]

He Said LARAVEL

[@codingperks]

I think you really like Angular so you want to lure us in with terms such as "Injectable Dependencies" and decorators. I think this was created by the Angular team created this because the cli is very similar to the angular CLI.😀

[@adampielach4942]

Angular team didn't invent decorators and injectable dependencies. They just made these two popular. If something works and is good, why not using it? That's why nest.js uses it

[@TayambaMwanza]

Nestjs makes use of a lot of Angular principles, if you use angular you can reuse majority of your knowledge to learn Nest

[@IsThatNiek]

Saw the name NestJS floating around here and there, never knew what it was. Definitely using this for a project !!!

[@terrormapu]

Angular : half copy Java Spring Nest : full copy Java Spring

[@Conlexio]

i started using nestjs because i wanted more organized express code. never even used angular before lol

[@elbojoloco]

All those decorators, if it weren't for those I would seriously dive into Nest.

[@viraj_singh]

yeah, decorators seems like magic tricks that makes the code run magically, way too much abstraction

[@MicroUrb]

Very accurate description of NestJS. It makes me want to say something like, "I have used NestJS and I approve this message".

[@CoryTheSimmons]

"MVC, Laravel, Ruby on Rails" Nope. Never going back to that.

[@Arcwise]

Why not? What are you using nowadays?

[@aldi_nh]

What kind of architecture that works better and more stable other than MVC?

[@geekmors3222]

It took me until today to realize that the NestJS logo is a cat yawning

[@TheQuinn50]

Basically just angular but for the backend

[@DK-ox7ze]

Can you do a video on Meteor JS too?

[@SouravTechLabs]

"I will see you in the next one" it's like saying Windows Subsystem for Linux or Ruby on Rails It's not Windows Subsystem for Linux, it's the complete opposite - Linux Subsystem for Windows. It shouldn't be Ruby on Rails, rather it should be Rails on Ruby. Similarly, you will not see me in the next one, but I will see you next time. English is weird...

[@JesusRedondoJS]

Thanks!

[@anshulpandey1]

Looks similar to Java Spring Framework(because of all the annotations name) btw waiting for your video on Java Spring or Spring Boot framework.

[@pauhull]

I bet there will be a js framework for toasters someday

[@bahadirfurkanakgul]

Check out my NestJS tutorial video in my channel-perfect for anyone just starting with backend development!

[@westerlander207]

Hey Jeff, would love to see Go or Rust in 100 seconds. Keep up the great content!

[@hagenwey5763]

This looks kinda comparable to what is Spring Boot for Java?!

[@CodingFire]

Javascript in 100 seconds please

[@try1994]

I am hooked to your background musics! Anyway to find them? Or did you create them your own??

[@ridl27]

Jeff! We need a full tutorial for sure! Like small app but with all fancy stuff. Would be fantastic! Anyway, ty!

[@BradPixelManH]

Very good framework, been using it for years. Unlike Express it encourages structure to your code.

[@ilkerbalc3956]

coming from the future, the hype around nestjs was sudden but short-lived. Also still looking for that icon set.

[@pranbirsarkar4175]

Looks like a JS framework is copying the behavior of Django Framework. If you know Django, you will get my comment.

[@matiaslauriti]

So, it is Laravel but uglier because it is JS and it does not have strict typing, only by TS... Ugly as fuck.... Laravel FTW for ever...

[@randomdamian]

It's a shit framework, more bloat and useless layers of complexity and one more syntax to learn. Use FastifyJS and EtaJS it will be faster than anything else. I know you're just presenting a framework, I get it and I don't blame anyone. But the thing that I don't get with frameworks is why over complicating everything as much as possible? Why creating multiple layers that might cause problems and it's always more bloat that needs to be handled by the server. NodeJS isn't the fastest and the best way is to use Async as much as you can and making small responses without rendering views with it. NextJS or Astro is better. That's my opinion.

[@snailedlt]

RSS in 100 seconds please :)

[@bobblah78]

Why even use typescript at this point if you're just recreating Spring boot? If you don't like Java syntax then just use Kotlin or Scala.

[@venus-sz2sl]

OMG one hour ago I was searching for this topic on your channel and now you just released it! ❤

[@mrpotato8985]

how it's different from .NET ? the same number of features out of the box. UI dev trying the server code. LOL

[@griitch]

can you do mvc in 100 seconds

[@lucienchu9649]

welcome to ANOTHER js framework, are you confused now? Cause I am :(

[@trusterzero6399]

Finally!! I've been using this for years

[@RafaelMilewski]

Look.. Nestjs is no good.... There are better frameworks, ardonijs and loopback

[@rajivranjan1573]

Angular developers be like - I've seen this somewhere :xD

[@olishiz]

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[@lucasj.pereira4912]

Looks like a good starting point for Laravel developers, I'll give it a try

[@SteamDeckGameplay]

It's a lot less "batteries included" than Laravel though, which makes me wonder why I'd use this rather than Laravel If you want to have a simple auth system it's 1 command on Laravel but with Nest it takes a while to setup

[@Neemzor]

Does anyone know of a channel that's similar to this channel's style but it covers UX/UI topics?

[@nunofontes3895]

It looks like Spring, but for Node... That wasn't a refreshing thing to see 🙈