This is a used cars RESTful API built with NestJS - inspired by @StephenGrider. Users can use common auth features (signin/signup/etc.), as well as submitting reports for an estimate of the car they want to buy. Admins should approve reports before they go public.
The main purpose of this project was to learn the fast node.js framework, NestJS. Here are some goals I attained along the way:
- Setting up authentication from scratch
- Encrypting user passwords using a salt and hash
- Using cookies to signin/signout users from the app
- Creating a repository from an entity using TypeORM
- Using DTOs to communicate and validate response data
- Creating a custom middleware to get current user anywhere in the app
- Implementing unit tests and e2e tests from scratch
- Building a custom serialize interceptor to use DTOs
- Using guards to restrict access to protected routes
- Creating complex queries with TypeORM
- Using sqlite in a dev/test environment, and PostgreSQL in production
I've used swagger with this app, which is a tool that lets you try out the API routes directly by accessing the /api route in the browser.
This is especially handy to avoid using third party services like postman and insomnia in every take.
Feel free to try it out, website link in the description.
This project uses a lot of server technologies such as:
- NestJS
- Typescript
- TypeORM
- sqlite & PostgreSQL
- Jest
- Swagger
- NodeJS
Thanks for sharing 🚀