NestJs

[lastmjs]

Nest seems to be the next most popular library built on top of Exprsess. There is enough interest from one of our most important developer partners that I would like to work on enabling this library.

Here we go.

• get reflect-metadata to work
• Write basic example
• Write tests
• We shouldn't have to use the ExpressAdapter explicitly, why couldn't nest automatically use Express?
• allow aliases as well from the dev side, that will help with quick testing and allow people to do their own quick patching
• esbuildPluginTsc does it run on every possible file? Can we scope it somehow? What about the import type issues?
• should reflect-metadata always be a part of Azle?
• The nest CLI isn't going to work...how do we deal with that?
• clean up dependencies and such
• careful there is a weird type export issue now...where you have to put type on the import if the export is a type, I am not sure how widespread this is. I imagine this is because of the reflect-metadata stuff
• Release candidate for testing
• Make process.stdout/stderr print nicer
• add npm_external and all dfx.json extra properties to the azle book (will cover this in dfx extensions)
• Fix large files tests
  • update dfx
  • remove suspicious sections of code
  • put 1 gib tests back in large files
• Get rid of all test code
• update to type: azle in dfx.json