Tools to develop the transaction microservice

To build our second microservice, we plan to use completely different tools to show that we don’t depend on concrete tools and technologies even in JavaScript. You can develop the same microservice using different technologies, and having multiple ones in your arsenal allows you to select the optimal stack tools for your development.

NestJS

As a Node.js framework, we plan to use NestJS. The official page describes it as “A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, reliable and scalable server-side applications.” Although Express.js has been the de facto standard for building web applications with a combination of Node.js, it doesn’t force you to use Express.js for all types of web applications.

First things first – NestJS is another Node.js framework. Check out Chapter 4’s Node.js frameworks section to learn more about NestJS. Here’s a summary of what it offers:

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