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NestJS: The Complete Developer's Guide (Udemy.com)

Build full featured backend APIs incredibly quickly with Nest, TypeORM, and Typescript. Includes testing and deployment!

Created by: Stephen Grider

Last updated February 2026

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What you will learn

  • Deploy a feature-complete app to production
  • Build authentication and permissions systems from scratch
  • Write integration and unit tests to ensure your code is working
  • Automatically validate data included with incoming requests
  • Use an API client to manually test your app
  • Apply structure to your code with Typescript
  • Make your code more reusable and testable with dependency injection
  • Tie different types of data together with TypeORM relationships
  • Get a behind-the-scenes understanding of NestJS
  • Use Guards to prevent unauthorized users from gaining access to sensitive data
  • Understand Nest's special request-response cycle
  • Model your app's data using TypeORM entities
  • Use decorators to dramatically simplify your code

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Course Description

Authentication/Authorization? Covered.  Automated Testing? Yep, it's here!  Production Deployment? Of course!

Congratulations! You've found the complete guide on how to build enterprise-ready apps with NestJS.

NestJS is a backend framework used to create scalable and reliable APIs.  It is a "battery-included" framework; it includes tools to handle just about every possible use case, from data persistence, to validation, to config management, to testing, and much, much more.  This course will help you master Nest. By the time you complete this course, you will have the confidence to build any app you can imagine.

Throughout this course you will build a series of apps with growing complexity.  We use as few libraries and tools as possible.  Instead, you will write many custom systems to better understand how every piece of Nest works together.  Each application you build includes discussion on data modeling and persistence. We will first save records in a simple file-based data store (built from scratch) and eventually work our way up to saving data in a production-grade Postgres instance.

Testing is a fundamental topic in Nest. A tremendous amount of functionality in Nest is dedicated to making sure your project is easy to test. This course follows Nest's testing recommendations, and you will write both integration and unit tests to ensure your project is working as expected. Although testing can sometimes be confusing and boring, I have put special care into making sure the tests we write are expressive, fast, and effective.  You will be able to use this knowledge on your own projects, even those that don't use Nest!

Typescript is used throughout this course to make sure we are writing clean and correct code. Don't know Typescript? Not a problem! A free appendix is included at the end of the course to get you up to speed on Typescript.  Once you're familiar with it, Typescript will help you catch errors and bugs in your code before you even run it.  If you've never used Typescript before you are in for a treat :)

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Everything in this course is designed to make your learning process as easy as possible.

  • At every step, I will teach you what Nest is doing internally, and help you understand how to twist and bend Nest to better suit your application's needs. 

  • Every single video in the course has an attached ZIP file containing up-to-date code, just in case you ever get stuck.

  • Full-time teaching assistants are standing by to help answer your questions

  • Access private live chat server is included. Live help whenever you need it!

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Here's a partial list of the topics included in this course:

  • Securely deploy your app to production

  • Write automated integration and unit tests to make sure your code is working

  • Build an authentication system from scratch to log users in

  • Allow users to perform certain actions with a permissions system

  • Store and retrieve data with complex queries using TypeORM

  • Understand how TypeORM handles data relationships

  • Write declarative code using property, method, and parameter decorators

  • Master the concept of dependency injection to write reusable code

  • Implement automatic validation of incoming requests

  • Format outgoing response data with a custom DTO system

  • Handle incoming requests and outgoing responses using Guards and Interceptors

  • Segment your code into reusable Nest Modules

  • Add structure to your database using migrations


I had a tough time learning NestJS.  There are a tremendous number of outdated tutorials around it, the documentation is sometimes unclear, and Nest itself is just plain hard to understand.  I made this course to save you time and money - a course to show you exactly what you need to know about every topic in Nest.  You will find learning Nest to be a delightful experience and pick up a tremendous amount of knowledge along the way.

Sign up today and join me in mastering NestJS!

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Instructor Details

Stephen Grider

Stephen Grider has been building complex Javascript front ends for top corporations in the San Francisco Bay Area.  With an innate ability to simplify complex topics, Stephen has been mentoring engineers beginning their careers in software development for years, and has now expanded that experience onto Udemy, authoring the highest rated React course. He teaches on Udemy to share the knowledge he has gained with other software engineers.  Invest in yourself by learning from Stephen's published courses.

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Reviews

4.7

9,487 ratings on Udemy

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By Bogdan Mares on 7/2/2026

Some of the syntax has moved on from the examples, but AI makes short work of filling the gaps, so still perfectly usable in 2026. I like the pacing and the teaching style. So far, so good.

By Udemy User on 6/17/2026

Excellent content and tuition Just a shame JWTs were not included. Also, the Typescript bonus section is 5 hrs long, and identical to the content from his other courses. So we don't get to 'complete' the course until we go through it again

By Juan Miguel Paulino Carpio on 6/15/2026

Stephen Grider is, as always, one of the best instructors on Udemy. He goes beyond simply teaching the framework and takes the time to explain the underlying concepts and fundamentals. The level of detail and clarity in his explanations is what makes his courses stand out from the rest.

By Erico Studart on 5/3/2026

The course is really amazing. The professor explains very well the important topics. Coming from python and suddenly having to build an App in the current company I work for, this course has really thought me all the required topics to build production really software. Thanks a lot!

By Sangeeth Gogula on 4/16/2026

I have been through 4 sections already. And I can feel this course is amazing. It's not the first time I have enrolled to Stephen Grider's course. He's the best

By Muhammad Haris Khan on 3/15/2026

I am loving it so far. Hoping to learn nest js deeply by the end of this course. Thank you so much for the efforts that have been put in this course videos, resources and managing it overall !!!

By Nikkol Russell Mallillin on 3/7/2026

The course is really a Complete Developer's Guide for NestJS. I appreciate the diagrams explaining how some concepts work like DI containers, interceptors, decorators, etc.

By Kostiantyn Shakhzadov on 2/21/2026

Pretty good right now, I like the course, and all seems to be clear for me. The only issue, that I've faced so far is that after installing TypeORM version 1.0.0 (by default), it was a necessity to install and use "better-sqlite3" instead of "sqlite3" library, which was not mentioned in the course. Also, I've heard that Prisma is more popular that TypeORM while working with NestJS apps nowadays, so would be great to have it's overview in this course as well (if possible). Other than that, I like it so far. Thank you!

By Ahmed Atwa on 1/17/2026

I was afraid of a shallow explanation of just the syntax, but Stephen dived into how all of this works and why we write the code like it is. I love the deep explanation of the mechanisms of Nest.js.

By Nodar Gogaladze on 12/17/2025

The course is for the starters like me, bofore that one i took my first course on Nest by Piotr Jura which was good but not quite that detailed explained. Many thing i was just writing withought understanding but after that course by Stephen Grider i understood many things. So huge recomendations for that course for the people who is just starting the NestJs. everythign is so detailed and simply explained.

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