🧱 NestJS API with MongoDB and Nginx Load Balancer

This repository contains a full-stack backend setup using NestJS, MongoDB, and Nginx as a reverse proxy/load balancer. All components are containerized and orchestrated using Docker Compose for a seamless development and deployment experience.

🗂️ Project Structure

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├── mongo/ # MongoDB configuration
├── src/ # NestJS API source code
├── nginx/ # Nginx configuration
├── docker-compose.yml # Docker Compose setup
└── README.md # Project documentation

🚀 Features

• ✨ NestJS - Scalable and modular server-side application framework.
• 🗃️ MongoDB - NoSQL database integration for data persistence.
• 🌐 Nginx - Reverse proxy/load balancer handling API traffic.
• 🐳 Docker Compose - Simplified multi-container setup and orchestration.

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🛠️ Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Docker
• Docker Compose

Clone the Repository

$ git clone git@github.com:claudiocaldeirao/nest-nginx-mongo.git
$ cd nest-nginx-mongo

🐳 Running the Stack

$ docker compose up -d

🧪 NestJS API Unit Tests

# unit tests
$ yarn run test

# e2e tests
$ yarn run test:e2e

# test coverage
$ yarn run test:cov

🧹 Useful Commands

# build image
$ docker build -t nest-api:1.0 .

# list images
$ docker images

# run container
$ docker run -p 3000:3000 nest-api:1.0 --d

# list running containers
$ docker container list

# stop running container
$ docker stop <container_id>

# stop all containers at once
$ docker stop $(docker ps -a -q)

# purge images
$ docker image prune --all --force

# delete all images
$ docker rmi -f $(sudo docker images -a -q)

# docker-compose to run multiple containers with nginx as load balancer
$ docker compose up -d

# stop docker-compose containers
$ docker compose down -v

🧑‍💻 Author

Made by Your Luiz Caldeirão

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.