Many Ionic applications will require the concept of an authenticated user who is authorised to perform certain actions – perhaps only authenticated users may access your application at all, or perhaps you want to restrict certain types of functionality in your application to certain types of users. There are many different options that can be […]
Using MongoDB with Ionic and NestJS
In the previous few NestJS tutorials we have been discussing how to set up a basic REST API that we can interact with using an Ionic application. We have covered making both GET and POST requests to the backend, but so far we have just been using dummy data and placeholder code – our API […]
Sending Data with POST Requests to a NestJS Backend
In the previous tutorial, we focused on making a GET request from an Ionic application to a NestJS backend. A GET request is generally pretty simple, as all we are doing is making a generic request to a specific URL which will then return a response. In this tutorial, we are going to cover how […]
Using Providers and HTTP Requests in a NestJS Backend
In the previous tutorial, we covered setting up a simple NestJS server that communicated with an Ionic application. All we have done so far is create a simple controller in NestJS that responded with some dummy message data. At the moment, it looks like this: The purpose of the previous tutorial was to introduce you […]
An Introduction to NestJS for Ionic Developers
Creating a backend for your application has typically required a totally different skill set to what you might use for the front end. Over time, those lines have blurred as the likes of NodeJS and server-side JavaScript have risen in popularity. Now, with NestJS, you might not even feel like you are working on a […]