NestJS + DynamoDB setup

cheatsheet.md

Nest.js + AWS DynamoDB Cheat Sheet

Summary

• 01 - Install NestJS CLI globally
• 02 - Start NestJS project
• 03 - Nest.js CRUD generator
• 04 - Generate boilerplate for anything
• 05 - AWS DynamoDB
  • 05.1 - DynamoDB + NestJS CRUD (youtube)
  • 05.2 - DynamoDB CLI
• 06 - AWS CLI and Configs
  • 06.1 - Installing AWS CLI on Linux Ubuntu
  • 06.2 - Configure the AWS credentials
• 07 - Cool Libs
  • 07.1 - UUID generator
  • 07.2 - Class validator and transformer for DTO

Install NestJS CLI globally

npm i -g @nestjs/cli

Start NestJS project

nest new project-name

Nest.js CRUD generator

nest g resource

It will generate a toon of boilerplate for creating a CRUD, including, controllers, services, types, literally everything to get started!

Generate boilerplate for anything

nest generate --help

AWS DynamoDB

DynamoDB + NestJS CRUD (youtube)

DynamoDB CLI

npm install @aws-sdk/client-dynamodb

AWS CLI and Configs

Installing AWS CLI on Linux Ubuntu

$ curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip" unzip awscliv2.zip sudo ./aws/install

Configure the AWS credentials

aws configure and insert the credentials from:

Managment Console => https://aws.amazon.com/console/ => Profile => Security Credentials / create and uses IAM access key

Cool Libs

UUID generator

npm i uuid

Class validator and transformer for DTO

npm i class-validator class-transformer