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NestJS 8 implementation under NodeJS 16 using Typescript and pnpm as fast package manager. It relies by default on express as NodeJS HTTP server implementation. NestJS offers a nice OpenAPI documentation generator thanks to Typescript which provides strong typing.

The separated ORM package take the best ideas from both known Doctrine and Eloquent PHP ORM :

• DataMapper pattern with POTO objects like Doctrine, with similar migrations generator.
• A Model Factory with seeder system for quick seeding dummy data inside database, with help of Faker, as Laravel does.

Main packages involved :

• MikroORM on latest v5 as DataMapper ORM that relies on Typescript, including migrations and seeders with as dummy data generator
• ESLint with Prettier for linting and code formatting
• Jest as main test framework