What problem does it solve?
NestJS Best Practices codifies architectural guidelines and design patterns to help teams build scalable, maintainable, and secure NestJS applications. It provides a centralized reference for module organization, dependency injection discipline, error handling, and performance strategies that reduce runtime issues and onboarding time.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Architecture and module organization guidance (feature modules, proper exports/imports, and shared modules).
- Dependency injection discipline (constructor injection, DI tokens, interface segregation, and LSP adherence).
- Security and API quality (JWT auth, validation, guards, DTO serialization, rate limiting, and XSS prevention).
- Performance and database patterns (async hooks, caching, transactions, migrations, and lazy loading).
- Testing and microservices patterns (testing modules, queues, events, health checks, and e2e/testing strategies).
Quick Start
Apply this guide during reviews to systematically refactor a NestJS codebase toward modular architecture, constructor DI, secure authentication, and performance improvements.