Building GraphQL backends with NestJS

Doug Martin joins Nick to talk to us about building GraphQL backends in TypeScript with NestJS and his project, nestjs-query. We talk about what NestJS is and its built-in support for GraphQL and REST, and then dive into how NestJS-query extends it to generate code for you.

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Featuring:

• Doug Martin – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• NestJS
  • Modules
  • Controllers
  • Services/Providers
• GraphQL with NestJS
  • Resolvers
• nestjs-query
  • Assemblers
• fastCSV
• Is JavaScript, the language, suffering

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!