Nest: How to make NestJS works with Electron?

Created on 25 Jul 2018 · 10Comments · Source: nestjs/nest

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What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?

NestJS is a good server framework to build apps and API. But I would like to use all power it has on a Electron solution. Is there some documentation of it?

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- Node version: 10
- Platform:  Mac OSx

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calebeaires

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Why would you like to use Nest with Electron? I mean, why not a client-side framework?

kamilmysliwiec on 26 Jul 2018

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Why would you like to use Nest with Electron? I mean, why not a client-side framework?

kamilmysliwiec on 26 Jul 2018

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To build make possible create an app that can be installed both on server and on desktop.

calebeaires on 27 Jul 2018

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You can strip apart all the server related stuff so you only get the DI / architecture as I've done here:
https://github.com/marcus-sa/zeus/tree/master/nest

marcus-sa on 27 Jul 2018

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@marcus-sa approach should be possible in the future without doing it yourself. See issue #531.

BrunnerLivio on 27 Jul 2018

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@BrunnerLivio I could do a PR.

marcus-sa on 27 Jul 2018

@marcus-sa maybe align with @kamilmysliwiec. This is a major change which will break every dependant application. I could imagine he won't accept any PR of this size. But it's really cool you've proven that it is feasible to strip out just the DI / architecture.

Also post your repo over at #531. People should be interested about your implementation :)

BrunnerLivio on 27 Jul 2018

@BrunnerLivio yeah, but I didn't update any of the server related stuff, so I've actually gone ahead and forked the repository and then coded a proposal of how the new server architecture could work.

https://github.com/marcus-sa/nest/tree/feat/usage-everywhere/examples/02-server

marcus-sa on 27 Jul 2018

I suggest tracking this feature at #531. @marcus-sa feel free to create a PR, would love to see the approach.

kamilmysliwiec on 30 Jul 2018

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@kamilmysliwiec I decided to code my own instead as its using Inversify, which makes 3rd party module creation a lot easier.
I hope you don't mind me sharing it, but if you want a solution @calebeaires this is probably the closest you're gonna get when using the same module architecture as Nest/Angular.
https://github.com/marcus-sa/one/tree/master/examples/electron

marcus-sa on 22 Aug 2018

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