Nest Starter

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A NestJS starter pack

Overview

This product analysis discusses the key features and installation process of a theme. It includes features such as local authentication, Google authentication, Facebook authentication, LinkedIn authentication, Redis for sessions, CSRF session tokens, CASL for authorization, TypeORM with PostgreSQL, and Swagger documentation. The installation guide covers setting up the database and using environment variables. The analysis concludes with a section on running the application.

Features

  • Local Auth: Allows for authentication using username and password.
  • Google Auth: Provides the option to authenticate with Google accounts.
  • Facebook Auth: Enables authentication using Facebook accounts.
  • LinkedIn Auth: Allows users to authenticate using their LinkedIn credentials.
  • Redis for sessions: Utilizes Redis as a storage mechanism for session management.
  • CSRF session tokens: Includes Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) session tokens for enhanced security.
  • CASL for authorization: Implements CASL, a isomorphic authorization library, for flexible and fine-grained authorization control.
  • TypeORM (PostgreSQL): Uses TypeORM as an Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) tool and PostgreSQL as the underlying database.
  • Swagger docs: Generates Swagger documentation for easy API reference.

Summary

This product analysis highlighted the key features of the theme, including various authentication options (local, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn), session management with Redis, CSRF session tokens for security, authorization control with CASL, and the usage of TypeORM with PostgreSQL as the database. The installation guide covers the setup of the database and the configuration of environment variables. Overall, this theme provides a robust authentication and authorization solution, with extensive documentation using Swagger for easy API reference.