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Reading Time: 6 minutes Introduction NestJS applications in my company implement health checking for k8s liveness probe. These applications check the following items are up and running: backend, database, redis, bull queue and external servers. Eventually, different backend teams encapsulate similar endpoint and services in a heath check module and import it to the application. This approach is not … Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutes Introduction It is common for enterprise applications to connect to external resources to process requests and get back responses. Therefore, application should know that the components it depends on are up and running all the times. Otherwise, the application behaves erroneously when serving client requests. To stay aware of the availability of connected resources, we … Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutes Introduction The responsibility of backend application is to handle client requests and return responses back to the client. However, backend performance can degrade when the request is resource intensive; UI thread waits endlessly and user interface is blocked for further user actions. To avoid the unresponsiveness, we can place jobs in queue and delegate the … Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutes Introduction When developers maintain a NestJS project, they add and delete codes to the project that some dependencies and files become redundant. When unused files and dependencies are left around, they become technical debts and reduce the code quality. Fortunately, we can use unimported to lint files and dependencies before git commit to avoid pushing … Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction Our technology team builds a lot of Nestjs libraries to reuse in Nestjs applications. Our libraries provide forRoot() to create dynamic module only. Therefore, we cannot call forRootAsync() to register asynchronous module by importing modules and injecting services. Before V9, there are many boilerplate codes to get forRootAsync() to work. Internally, forRootAsync invokes createAsyncProvider … Read more
Reading Time: 7 minutes Introduction This project is a proof of concept (POC) to generate i18n pdf invoice using nestjs-i18n and html2pdf. In this use case, the i18n language comes from database instead of http request. It is because scheduled job generates and sends out invoices on a monthly basis that does not involve HTTP communication. After retrieving the … Read more
Reading Time: 6 minutes Introduction This project is a proof of concept (POC) to apply i18n translation to emails. Our vendor has a different solution to translate emails at work; therefore, this solution is not picked up. Nonetheless, I want to show my work in this post to demonstrate how to use nestjs-i18n library to translate the content of … Read more
Reading Time: 7 minutes Introduction Many enterprise applications support multiple languages nowadays to cater to customers whose first language is not English. In nest application, we would like to add i18n support to return i18n messages to client-side applications such that users can respond with appropriate actions. Nest framework does not have i18n out of the box but we … Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutes Problem: Frontend developers complained that integration with API is a painful process because there is no documentation on available endpoints, expected payloads and responses. Therefore, our backend team leads elect to enable swagger such that frontend developers can browse all the APIs on dedicated documentation site. When they showed me how it was done, I … Read more
Reading Time: 7 minutes Scenario: Our ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) platform requires to run schedule jobs to call endpoints to generate reports for internal teams and send company emails to our customers. Development team was tasked with developing a job scheduler that executes cron jobs at a specified period of time. node-cron is a popular open source library … Read more