Developing a REST API requires us to create endpoints using various HTTP methods such as GET, POST, and DELETE. People utilizing our API expect that making a GET request lists data instead of deleting it. It’s the developer’s role to ensure that the API is easy to understand and follows the best practices. While most […]
Using a debugger with an application running locally on our machine is a great way to troubleshoot. Unfortunately, we can’t do that with a deployed app. To be able to investigate any potential issues, we need to implement a logging functionality. In this article, we use the logger built into NestJS and integrate it with […]
When fetching data from the database, we do not always want to present it to the user in the original form. When working with NestJS, the most popular way of modifying the response is with the class-transformer library. However, using the above library with Prisma requires a bit of work. In this article, we provide […]
One of the most important aspects of working with a database is ensuring the stored information is correct. One of the fundamental ways of doing that is by using the correct data types for the columns in our tables. Thanks to that, we can make sure that a particular column holds only numbers, for example. […]
