1.2

The main changes of this update are upgrading Nest from v10 to v11, and some more improvements that have been grouped in a new section: Further Improvements. The reason is to avoid bloating the Improvements/Tips module too much, as it is considered an early module. Changes are as follows:

Version upgrades

• NestJS: v10 to v11

• Several other packages

New improvements

• Sending emails: Send an email to the user when the account is created

• Health checks: Check the health of the database

• Cron jobs: Regularly check for old soft-deleted users and hard-delete them

Other changes

• Explain that git config core.autocrlf should be set back to true

• Fix: set prettier as default formatter in settings.json

• Disable some troublesome strictness options:

  • strictNullChecks option in tsconfig

  • Several rules in ESLint file

• Prefix bootstrap() call with void to explicitly not await it

• In Insomnia:

  • Rename baseUrl to host

  • Create a variable for the token

• Use again the function extractFromText() to encapsulate extraction with regex

• Use App type for app and server in e2e test file

• Use single command to stop and remove docker container for test database

• Relocate More validations lesson to Further improvements section, and show example using standard @IsAlpha() validator with locale