This an accompanying repo to this tutorial which covers how to build a full-stack, end to end type-safe pnpm monorepo with NestJS, NextJS 13 (using the new /app directory) & tRPC.
I have fallen in love with this tech stack as the developer experience is SO good! I'm pretty sure you will too 😉.
In particular, I love that:
- It's fully end-to-end type safe
- The tRPC server is fully integrated into NestJS, so you have access to all of NestJS's wonderful functionality like dependency injection
- Fits really well with the NextJS 13 transition to server side rendering
- It keeps the frontend(s) and backend project seperate, but seamlessly working together in the monorepo
I also wrote this tutorial as many people in the NestJS community are curious on how to use tRPC with NestJS!
The only pre-requisites for this tutorial is that you'll need pnpm and the NestJS CLI installed on your machine.
First make sure you add an .env.local file inside the web app with the following variable:
NEXT_PUBLIC_NESTJS_SERVER=http://localhost:4000Then install the dependencies:
pnpm install
pnpm dev # starts local server for both frontend (NextJS) and backend (NestJS)