This project uses NestJS, GraphQL, and MongoDB. This project implements user authentication. It will be easy to add other GraphQL schemas following the same structure. User auth is implemented in this project because it is one of the hardest and most common things to create for an API. The intent of this project is to provide an example of how to integrate all of these technologies together that are in the NestJS documentation (NestJS, GraphQL, MongoDB, Mongoose, Passport, JWT, DotEnv, Joi, Jest) into a working backend. If you recognize an anti-pattern or a better way to do something, please post an issue. It is challenging not to repeat the structure of the models in the GraphQL schema, Mongo schema, and Typescript interfaces. The goal is to have one truth point for the models and extend that data when more data is needed. With NestJS 6.0.0 a code first approach was introduced. This project uses the schema first approach to be language agnostic.
Features
- Create a development.env file
- The database stores a unique lowercase value for both username and email
- username is the primary field to identify a user in a request
- Add a user via the graphql playground or a frontend
- The UsersService update method will update any fields which are valid and not duplicates
- Both unique properties username and email can be changed
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