TP2: Introduction to NestJS

NestJS documentation website: https://docs.nestjs.com

📝 Goal

The goal of this TP is to create a simple Rest API exposing the Bookshelf implemented in TP1. The API will have the following routes:

🕸 Routes

Get all the books stored in the Bookshelf:

Method: GET
Route: /books

Create a book:

Method: POST
Route: /books

Body:

{
    "title": "A_TITLE",
    "author": "A_NAME",
    "date": "A_DATE"
}

Get a book with its isbn:

Method: GET
Route: /books/[ISBN_OF_THE_BOOK]

Get all books of a given author

Method: GET
Route: /books?author=[NAME_OF_THE_AUTHOR]

Delete a book with its isbn:

Method: DELETE
Route: /books/[ISBN_OF_THE_BOOK]

To guide you and help you find out if everything is ✅:

a E2E (end-to-end) test suite is available in ./app.e2e-spec.ts. These tests can be run using Jest in command line or inside your IDE.
a Postman collection is available in this project directory (BookShelf.postman_collection.json). Import it in Postman to easily execute some requests.

🚀 Getting Started

Open a terminal, go to the directory of this TP and run the following commands:

# This will install all needed dependencies
npm install

# This will run the tests once
npm run test

OR

# This will run the tests everytime a change is made in the source code
npm run test:watch

# This will build the source and put the transpiled code in `/dist` directory
npm run build

# This will start the API 
npm run start:dev

That's it! You can code!

🛰 Extra

Add an endpoint to search a book based on a part of the title/the author:
- Method: POST
- Route: /books/search
- Body:
```
{
  "term": "A_TITLE"
}
```
Add some validation to ensure that data are valid when creating a Book

🔑 Solution

An implementation of the TP is available on solution branch. To switch to the solution just do: