Task Manager API

A full-stack Task Manager REST API built with NestJS and TypeScript. Implements production-ready patterns including secure JWT authentication via httpOnly cookies, Redis caching with smart invalidation, two-factor password change confirmation via email, and pagination.

Designed as a portfolio project demonstrating full-stack development skills — from database design with PostgreSQL and TypeORM to containerization with Docker and E2E testing with Supertest.

Frontend built with React, Redux Toolkit and TailwindCSS is available at - https://github.com/Roderen/task-manager-react

Features

1. JWT Authentication - secure httpOnly cookie-based auth
2. User Registration & Login - with bcrypt password hashing
3. Password Change with 2FA - email confirmation code via Nodemailer
4. Redis Caching
5. DTO Validation
6. Swagger API Documentation
7. PostgreSQL with TypeORM
8. Docker
9. E2E Testing

Running with Docker (recommended)

Requirements

• Docker and Docker Compose

Setup

git clone https://github.com/Roderen/task-manager-nest-api.git
cd task-manager-nest-api
cp .env.example .env
docker compose up --build

App will be available at http://localhost:3000

Running in development mode

Requirements

• Node.js 22.12+

Setup

docker compose up postgres redis -d
npm install
npm run start:dev

API Documentation

Swagger UI available at http://localhost:3000/api

Environment Variables

Copy .env.example to .env and fill in the values. JWT_SECRET - any random string, e.g: openssl rand -base64 32