lesson-6.md

6. Conclusion & Additional Resources

Congratulations, you finished the workshop! 🎉🎊🥳

Throughout the workshop you:

• Built a REST API with NestJS
• Smoothly integrated Prisma in a NestJS project
• Documented your REST API using Swagger and OpenAPI
• Implemented input validation with NestJS Pipes
• Implemented error handling with NestJS Exception filters
• Implemented end-to-end testing with Jest

That’s a lot of cool stuff, you should be proud of yourself!

Where to go from here?

You should now have some of the basic knowledge necessary to continue your exploration of NestJS. I would personally suggest trying to expand this codebase with more features. A few ideas:

• Add another endpoint, for example, a /users endpoint.
• Add unit-testing
• Add rate limiting
• Add caching
• Add authentication and authorization
• Add pagination
• Add continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD)
• …etc

You could also try building something completely new!

Cool additional resources

• The NestJS docs - NestJS has fantastic documentation!
• GraphQL NestJS Prisma starter template on Github
• Prisma Day 2021 NestJS Workshop (covers authentication and pagination)
• Testing NestJS repository on Github - Great showcase of different testing techniques (has a great Prisma example)
• awesome-nestjs - A curated list of awesome things related to NestJS
• Prisma Blog - We are in the process of releasing a series of tutorials covering various NestJS topics