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Getting Started with TypeScript ORM Libraries for Node.js

TypeORM Setup

Learn about the NestJS library, TypeORM, and how to install them via the CLI on our local machine.

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NestJS is a Node.js framework or library. It’s unique in that it ships a lot of libraries for difficult tasks such as cron jobs, authentication, sockets, and so on, improving the developer experience. It’s highly modularized and well-structured from the ground up, which makes it one of the best choices for many back-end engineers.

In this lesson, we’ll go through five different steps to set up the codebase.

Create a starter project

From the official NestJS GitHub repository, we can clone a starter project.

Tip: We have a Single-page application (SPA) widget with all the configurations and setups that can be used to practice.

Shell
git clone https://github.com/nestjs/typescript-starter.git typeorm-educative
cd project
npm install
npm run start:debug

With our local setup, we can now open the application in the browser on localhost:3000.

Install npm packages for TypeORM

We’ll install the ...