Nest JS: Create a new Module

Creating a new module in the nest JS app. How to create a module in nest JS?

Modules basically helps us to break our app into smaller components.

Let’s create an auth module in our newly created nest js app:

Creating a new module in Nest JS – Manual way

• In the src folder create folder named auth
• Inside the auth folder we can create the module file : auth.module.ts

import { Module } from '@nestjs/common'

@Module({})
export class AuthModule { }

The basic code for a module is given above.

The class is annotated by a @Module() decorator, which makes it a module.

Importing the newly created module inside the app module

import { Module } from '@nestjs/common';
import { AuthModule } from './auth/auth.module';

@Module({
  imports: [AuthModule],
})
export class AppModule { }

Creating a new module in Nest JS – Using Nest CLI command

Let us see how to create a new module in the nest js app using a CLI command. We are creating a new module for the user called user module using the below command.

nest g module user

g in the above command mean generate

This command will generate our new module for user

Also, it automatically imports to the App Module