Building the Reading Tracker API with NestJS

Overview

Learn backend development with NestJS by building a feature-rich Reading Tracker API. Explore modular architecture, DTOs, authentication, guards, and interceptors while implementing real-world features like user friendships, shared progress, and advanced data filtering and sorting.

Syllabus

Course 1: NestJS Fundamentals: Your First API
Course 2: Building Core Features with Modules and DTOs
Course 3: Secure Your API with Authentication and Authorization
Course 4: Enhancing Your API with Guards and Interceptors
Course 5: Managing User Friendships and Shared Progress
Course 6: Advanced Filtering, Aggregation, and Sorting

Courses

0 reviews
1 hour
View details

You'll start your journey by scaffolding a new NestJS application with the CLI. Then, you'll create your first API endpoints, separate business logic into services, and connect to a mock in-memory database to manage your app's data.
0 reviews
1 hour
View details

You'll create a dedicated module for managing books, complete with endpoints for creating, reading, updating, and deleting records. You'll learn to validate incoming data using DTOs and handle dynamic route parameters to interact with specific resources.
0 reviews
1 hour
View details

Add secure authentication and authorization to your Reading Tracker API. Implement user registration, login with JWT, and role-based access control to protect routes and enable admin-level actions for a production-ready backend.
0 reviews
1 hour
View details

You’ll harden and polish the Reading Tracker API built in the first three courses. First, you’ll enforce ownership so users can only modify their own reading progress. Then you’ll add centralized request logging, standardize both success and error responses across the API, and finally refactor to a global JWT guard with a `@Public()` decorator so security is easy to scale.
0 reviews
1 hour
View details

Add social features to your reading tracker API. You’ll model friendships and friend requests, expose endpoints to send/accept/decline requests, list a user’s friends, and securely retrieve a friend’s reading progress—all while composing the existing UsersService and ReadingService.
0 reviews
1 hour
View details

Enhance your Reading Tracker API with advanced catalog features—metadata, search, filtering, sorting, and analytics. Support per-user reading progress, shelves, and statistics to deliver a polished, frontend-ready experience.