Angular & Nest, a match made in heaven

How to generate a frontend and backend application with 5 commands

Kevin Kreuzer
8 min readDec 23, 2020

Offering many out of the box solutions for complex use-cases, Angular is one of the best frameworks for developing single-page applications. Another great thing about Angular is that it’s very opinionated about architecture. This is especially important for bigger development teams since it facilitates the on-boarding of new members and communication between different teams throughout an organization.

The Angular CLI (command line interface) is another amazing tool. It allows us to scaffold an entire Angular application with one command and perform common tasks such as extending, linting, testing, and building our application.

Nest JS, on the other hand, is a framework to develop backend applications with TypeScript. It's based on express JS. If you never heard of Nest JS, I recommend you to check out this article:

Here’s the cool thing. Nest is deeply inspired by Angular. It offers out of the box solutions for many problems, comes…

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Kevin Kreuzer
Kevin Kreuzer

Written by Kevin Kreuzer

Passionate freelance frontend engineer. ❤️ Always eager to learn, share and expand knowledge.

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