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NestJs Abstraction Helper
https://github.com/nartc/nest-abstract

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NestJs Abstraction Helper

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Nestjs Abstract



Abstraction component for NestJs.



Fair warning: This package is still in early development stage. Please give me any feedbacks if you decide to try it out and find any problems/area-for-improvements. Thank you!



## Features

- Provides **Abstractions** for your `NestJS` **RESTfulAPI**.

- Includes: `AbstractModule`, `AbstractService`, and `AbstractControllerFactory` along with `AbstractModel` (`mongoose`) and `AbstractEntity` (`typeorm`).

- [x] Supports `@nestjs/swagger`



## Motivations



I am a big fan of `TypeScript` and **abstraction** overall. One of the biggest motivations is to create a `BaseController` to work with `Swagger`'s decorators that `@nestjs/swagger` provides which is on the todo list. Main reason is I want to roll out a version of the package that will make it work with `non-swagger` applications first as this is my first attempt at an `npm` package.



## Installation

`npm i nest-abstract`



## Usage



1. Import `AbstractModule` in your `AppModule`

   ```typescript

    import { Module } from '@nestjs/common';

    import { AbstractModule } from 'nest-abstract';



    @Module({

        imports: [AbstractModule.forRoot()],

    })

    export class AppModule {}

   ```



   > By default, `AbstractModule` will use `Mongoose`. You can pass a value of `ObjectMapping` to the `forRoot()` method.



    ```typescript

    import { Module } from '@nestjs/common';

    import { AbstractModule, ObjectMapping } from 'nest-abstract';



    @Module({

        imports: [AbstractModule.forRoot(ObjectMapping.TypeOrm)],

    })

    export class AppModule {}

   ```

   

   > Note: `ObjectMapping.Mongoose` will require you to install `mongoose` and `@nestjs/mongoose` while `ObjectMapping.TypeOrm` will require you to install `typeorm` and `@nestjs/typeorm`.



    *Note: I will list the usage for Mongoose from step 2 on.*



2. Create your `MongooseSchema` and create an **interface** that will extend `AbstractModel`. `AbstractModel` is an **interface** that has: `createdAt`, `updatedAt` and `id`.

   

   ```typescript

   import { Schema } from 'mongoose';

   import { AbstractModel } from 'nest-abstract';

   

   const todoSchema = new Schema({

       content: {

           type: String

       }

   }, { timestamps: true });



   interface Todo extends AbstractModel {

       content: string;

   }

   ```



   > Use your `schema` to initialize your `Model` with `@nestjs/mongoose`.



3. Create your `Service` with `AbstractMongooseService`.

   ```typescript

   import { Injectable } from '@nestjs/common';

   import { InjectModel } from '@nestjs/mongoose';

   import { AbstractMongooseService } from 'nest-abstract';

   import { Model } from 'mongoose';



   @Injectable()

   export class TodoService extends AbstractMongooseService {

       constructor(@InjectModel('todo') private readonly _todoModel: Model) {

           super(_todoModel);

       }

   }

   ```

   > Use `@InjectModel()` from `@nestjs/mongoose` to inject your **MongooseModel** and pass that to the *abstract* constructor.



4. Create your `Controller` with `abstractControllerFactory`

    ```typescript

    import { Controller } from '@nestjs/common';

    import { abstractControllerFactory } from 'nest-abstract';

    import { Todo } from './todo.model';

    import { TodoService } from './todo.service';



    const BaseController = abstractControllerFactory({model: TodoService.model});



    @Controller('todo')

    export class TodoController extends BaseController {

        constructor(private readonly _todoService: TodoService) {

            super(_todoService);

        }

    }

    ```



5. Make sure you put your `Service` in `providers` array in `Module` and your `Controller` in `controllers` array in `Module`.

   

   > Now your `TodoController` should have 5 pre-defined route handlers: `find`, `findById`, `create`, `update` and `delete`



## With Authentication



To enable `Authenticate` on your `Controllers` with `Passport`, `abstractControllerWithAuth`.

   > You need to install `passport` and `@nestjs/passport` if you want to enable `Authentication`.

   ```typescript

   import { abstractControllerWithAuth } from 'nest-abstract';



   const BaseController = abstractControllerWithAuth({model: TodoService.model});

   ```

   

   > By default, `auth` is enabled by on all 5 CRUDs operations.

  

## With Swagger



To enable `Swagger` on your `Controller`, use `abstractControllerWithSwagger`.

   > `Authentication` is "mandatory" with `Swagger` so you will have to have: `passport`, `@nestjs/passport` and `@nestjs/swagger` installed.

   > By default, `auth` is enabled by on all 5 CRUDs operations. If you wish to use `abstractControllerWithSwagger` without `auth`, please pass in an object of type `DefaultAuthObj` and set all the properties to `false`.



## Plans



- [x] Might break `abstractControllerFactory` out to 3 separate factories: normal, swagger and withAuth

- Supports `Serialization` (https://docs.nestjs.com/techniques/serialization)?

- anything? 



## Credit

- @rcanessa89 and his/her repository: https://github.com/rcanessa89/nest-js-starter. rcanessa89 first raised an issue regarding a `BaseController` on my `nest-mean` repository and came up with his/her `BaseController`.