Serverless & NestJS Template

This project contains a backend starter template for running NestJS GraphQL APIs on AWS Lambda with security and performance best practices.

Features

• MySQL Database config with TypeORM migrations
• Docker database for local development
• AWS Deployment with Serverless Framework
• AWS Lambda NodeJS 18x configuration and optimizations

Authentication/Authorization

• Basic example of JWT authentication is included as an example

Technology Choices

NestJS

• Opinionated, mature backend framework with active community
• Supports dependency injection out of the box
• First-class typescript support

AWS Lambda

• Pay-per-use pricing is ideal for early-stage startups where traffic and access patterns are unknown
• Cold starts can be minimized by keeping package bundles small, caching server between invocations and keeping lambdas warm

Serverless framework

• Strong community of plugins and supports for NodeJS/Typescript

Dependencies

• NodeJS
• NVM brew install nvm
• Yarn
• Docker
• VSCode
• AWS Account

Setup

To be continued...