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October has been a long but productive month, filled with both challenges and new beginnings. I kicked off a new side project aimed at creating a tool to collate all support sources for users.Highlights of the MonthExploring Custom Email Support: I started the month with the goal of building custom email support through domain integrations. After a lot of trial and error, I ended up going back to the basics and rebuilding the tool from scratch. I decided to start with the simplest form of support source—widgets—and built from there.
Tech Stack I’m Loving: This month, I’ve come to appreciate my current stack even more. Working with Svelte on the frontend and NestJS on the backend has been a rewarding experience.
Personal DevelopmentI revisited two books, Show Your Work and Deep Work, and have been actively applying the principles I learned. These have been invaluable for keeping focus and sharing my building journey more openly.
Goals for Next MonthDeploy the Project for Feedback: I plan to launch an early version of the tool and gather user feedback.
Continue Sharing the Journey: Building in public has been incredibly motivating, and I want to keep this momentum going.
Weekly Demos on Hacker News: I aim to post weekly demos on Hacker News to engage the community and gather feedback.
Thank you for reading! I’ll be hanging out in the comments for any questions or feedback—looking forward to chatting with you al

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<pre><code> &gt; C# culture is closer to enterprise Java than it is to Typescript
</code></pre>
I mean, this really depends on what you&#x27;re looking at.Here&#x27;s a sample from the MongoDB client: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mongodb&#x2F;node-mongodb-native&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;src&#x2F;operations&#x2F;command.ts">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mongodb&#x2F;node-mongodb-native&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;src...</a>Here&#x27;s a sample from Storybook: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;storybookjs&#x2F;storybook&#x2F;blob&#x2F;next&#x2F;code&#x2F;core&#x2F;src&#x2F;channels&#x2F;websocket&#x2F;index.ts">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;storybookjs&#x2F;storybook&#x2F;blob&#x2F;next&#x2F;code&#x2F;core...</a>Here&#x27;s a sample from Prisma: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;prisma&#x2F;prisma&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;packages&#x2F;client&#x2F;src&#x2F;runtime&#x2F;RequestHandler.ts">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;prisma&#x2F;prisma&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;packages&#x2F;client&#x2F;s...</a>Here&#x27;s a sample from Cal.com: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;calcom&#x2F;cal.com&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;packages&#x2F;core&#x2F;EventManager.ts#L104">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;calcom&#x2F;cal.com&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;packages&#x2F;core&#x2F;Ev...</a>These are all fairly mainstream repos so it&#x27;s not a one off to see &quot;enterprise&quot; style coding in TypeScript.It&#x27;s rather the specific use case that determines the style of the code that&#x27;s written. In the examples above, there&#x27;s no need for the teams to choose JavaScript classes and inheritance to model the logic, yet it likely better fits the programming model of those modules.Look at Nest.js as well: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nestjs&#x2F;nest&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;packages&#x2F;core&#x2F;router&#x2F;routes-resolver.ts">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nestjs&#x2F;nest&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;packages&#x2F;core&#x2F;rou...</a>The whole codebase of Nest.js looks an awful lot like Spring or ASP.NET (controller syntax) probably because there&#x27;s a lot of crossover in terms of what APIs need at scale and how to logically organize that logic.It just so happens that most use cases for C# and Java favor applications at a larger scale. Another key difference being object scope and lifecycles -- something that rarely comes into play in the generally single-threaded Node runtime. This being one of the key reasons why dependency injection is a thing in C# and Java land.

What's New in F# 9

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Location: Bangalore, India (Working in multiple Time-Zone-US&#x2F;UK&#x2F;AUS&#x2F;NZ and EUR) Remote: Yes
Focus Areas:FinTech:- Financial Services Product Development, Payment SDKs, B2B SaaS (USA, Europe, India)AI &amp; ML:- LLM, OpenAI, GPT4 All (Working with 4 clients in LLM based Agents)SportsTech:- Sports Product Development (USA, Australia)LegalTech:- Document Assembling, DocumentAI (Blockchain)Real-time Engagement with Audio and video, StreamingSchedule a Chat: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;calendly.com&#x2F;mobilefirst-intro" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;calendly.com&#x2F;mobilefirst-intro</a>Email: rupal(.)mobilefirst at gmail(.)comTechnologies: NextJS, NestJS, NodeJs, Angular 14, TypeScript, Redux, NoSQL, ReactJS, Tailwind CSS, Shopify, AWS, Serverless, Kubernetes, iOS, Java, React Native, Flutter, Full-stackAvailability: We are a product consulting &amp; development studio. Due to budget cuts, 2 of our large customers have paused their engagements. We do have more bandwidth in the coming months. We also provide fractional engineers for services.In the last engagement, we managed the front end (Storybook + React) &amp; back end (Serverless). We follow a ticket-based branch strategy &amp; have written unit test cases (TDD) as well

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024)

SEEKING WORK | Location: Bangalore, India (Working in multiple Time-Zone-US&#x2F;UK&#x2F;AUS&#x2F;NZ and EUR) Remote: Yes
Focus Areas:FinTech:- Financial Services Product Development, Payment SDKs, B2B SaaS (USA, Europe, India)AI &amp; ML:- LLM, OpenAI, GPT4 All (Working with 4 clients in LLM based Agents)SportsTech:- Sports Product Development (USA, Australia)LegalTech:- Document Assembling, DocumentAI (Blockchain)Real-time Engagement with Audio and video, StreamingTechnologies: NextJS, NestJS, NodeJs, Angular 14, TypeScript, Redux, NoSQL, ReactJS, Tailwind CSS, Shopify, AWS, Serverless, Kubernetes, iOS, Java, React Native, Flutter, Full-stackAvailability: We are a product consulting &amp; development studio. Due to budget cuts, 2 of our large customers have paused their engagements. We do have more bandwidth in the coming months. We also provide fractional engineers for services.In the last engagement, we managed the front end (Storybook + React) &amp; back end (Serverless). We follow a ticket-based branch strategy &amp; have written unit test cases (TDD) as well.Schedule a Chat: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;calendly.com&#x2F;mobilefirst-intro" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;calendly.com&#x2F;mobilefirst-intro</a>Email: rupal(.)mobilefirst at gmail(.)com

We also tried out nest.js, but I wasn&#x27;t really happy about it.To me it seemed more interested in being a smart dependency injection engine, and enforcing an - IMO not very JavaScripty - module pattern rather than being a useful tool.You can do everything you want, but you will have to make all the decisions yourself, and you will have to make everything play by nestjs&#x27;s rules. And from my experience the seemingly comprehensive docs often don&#x27;t get you very far.Follow the guide for Prisma and you won&#x27;t be able to extend the Prisma client unless you refactor the service you&#x27;ve just made.Follow the guide for file upload and you will have a file in your controller, but very little information about how to store that file.That being said, I can see that lots of people really like nestjs, so maybe I&#x27;m just not getting it.

Rewrite It in Rails

SEEKING WORK | GERMANY | REMOTE
Location: Germany (CET)Remote: YesWilling to relocate: No---Technologies:- DevOps: Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, NGINX- Backend: Node.js, Express.js, NestJS, GraphQL, Fastify, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis- Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Framer MotionRésumé&#x2F;CV: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;turtledev.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;turtledev.net</a>Email: contact@turtledev.netAbout:Senior DevOps Engineer and Full-Stack Developer with over 12 years of experience in building scalable systems, automating infrastructure, and developing high-quality frontend and backend solutions. I&#x27;ve worked on projects ranging from e-commerce migrations, CI&#x2F;CD pipeline automation, and Kubernetes orchestration, to full-stack web applications. Available for consulting, freelance, and contract work, part-time or full-time. Let’s bring your next project to life!

Been meaning to try out AdonisJS and this is good to hear!For a recent personal project I went with NestJS but soon after discovered Adonis. I&#x27;ve actually been considering switching.

Fleming | Senior DevSecOps &#x2F; Site Reliability Engineer &#x2F; Software Engineer | Full-Time | Hybrid (Germany) | Berlin &#x2F; MagdeburgFleming is offering loans and bank accounts for health care professionals in Germany and building a sales platform for loan brokers.Our stack is NestJS using FP-TS and Rails hosted on fly.io, a React Native SPA, Salesforce Apex and a Wordpress for the home page.We are looking for a Site Reliability &#x2F; DevSecOps Engineer, that takes responsibility for improving our observability and security posture and works together with the engineers to have the ideal infrastucture - application fit.Secondly we are looking for a Senior Developer with experience in security sensitive applications, testing and ideally functional programming.German (a least B1) is required.More infos on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fleming.de&#x2F;jobs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fleming.de&#x2F;jobs</a>apply at jobs@fleming.de

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)

Senior Software Developer &#x2F; Team Lead &#x2F; System ArchitectLocation: IndonesiaRemote: RemoteWilling to relocate: NoTechnologies: NodeJS, NestJS, Javascript, React, SQL, RabbitMq, C#, PHPRésumé&#x2F;CV: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drive.google.com&#x2F;file&#x2F;d&#x2F;1NMUps5c_ofXQ5aCCNUosXQMZp4S" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drive.google.com&#x2F;file&#x2F;d&#x2F;1NMUps5c_ofXQ5aCCNUosXQMZp4S</a>...Email: fendy3002@gmail.com12 years of professional experience, fast learner, highly adaptable and great at debugging

SEEKING WORK | Remote | Fullstack Developer (Typescript)I am a fullstack developer with 10 years of experience, I offer my services in the field of back and frontend development in this ecosystem: Node.js &#x2F; NestJs &#x2F; PostgreSQL &#x2F; MongoDb &#x2F; Vue.js.
I have extensive experience in business areas such as construction, recruitment, collaborative systems.
Do not hesitate to come back to me to set up a meeting to talk about a future collaboration.CV: 
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contact at jerome-charriaud.com

Dandy | Multiple Engineering Roles | REMOTE from US or Canada | Full TimeWe’re Dandy; a Series C startup that is innovating the dental restorative manufacturing industry. Our goal is to bring dentistry into the digital age, creating a one stop shop for products that power a $200b industry.Our tech stack: TypeScript, React, GraphQL, NodeJS, NestJS, PostgreSQL, GCPAll roles: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.meetdandy.com&#x2F;careers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.meetdandy.com&#x2F;careers&#x2F;</a>
Video Overview of what we do: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dandy.wistia.com&#x2F;medias&#x2F;jwscpbhalv" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dandy.wistia.com&#x2F;medias&#x2F;jwscpbhalv</a>We’re hiring for engineering roles across the board. Some of our highlighted roles:Senior Fullstack and Integrations Engineer &#x2F; CADThe CAD team owns and builds advanced 3D software that is manufacturing process-aware. In this role, you’ll be building workflows that give Dandy a competitive edge in quality and throughput for customer delight.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.meetdandy.com&#x2F;careers&#x2F;job&#x2F;?ashby_jid=aee60c39-1302-4b2e-adf1-447abb182601" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.meetdandy.com&#x2F;careers&#x2F;job&#x2F;?ashby_jid=aee60c39-13...</a>Senior Software Engineer, Windows Desktop.This team builds and maintains our desktop application which interfaces with our intraoral scanner, enabling doctors to scan patients and order dental products (such as crowns, bridges, implants, dentures, night guards, sleep apnea devices, etc.) from our in-house manufacturing lab. We’re looking for senior developers with Windows, C#, and Electron experience for this role. Experience working with native devices from Electron is a plus.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.meetdandy.com&#x2F;careers&#x2F;job&#x2F;?ashby_jid=d8249910-a304-45a2-8b7f-fadf6a1dfd40" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.meetdandy.com&#x2F;careers&#x2F;job&#x2F;?ashby_jid=d8249910-a3...</a>

Vesto | Software Engineer | New York | Full-timeVesto is building a financial operating system for SMEs. We&#x27;re looking for Founding Engineer #2 to join our team and help build our core platform and products.8 months ago we pivoted from selling an investment product to building a financial os and are on pace to double our ARR.Tech stack: Typescript, Nextjs, Nestjs, Django, AWS
Read more:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getvesto.notion.site&#x2F;Founding-Full-stack-Engineer-Vesto-4d579a18be674538878556b4c6c417af" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getvesto.notion.site&#x2F;Founding-Full-stack-Engineer-Ve...</a>To apply, please email jobs@vesto.com with the subject line &quot;HN: Founding Engineer&quot;

ToursByLocals | Full Stack Engineer | Remote | 75-150kToursByLocals is one of the top destinations for travellers looking to get a private tour from an actual _local_ tour guide from the area. We recently launched our new site and we are looking for a few more talented people to join our team to continue to make it better and launch new features our travellers, tour guides and travel agents will love. Our tech stack includes: Node, TypeScript, NextJS &amp; NestJS, React, GraphQL, MongoDB.I am hiring for early career, intermediate and senior level roles, when you apply let us know which role you are interested in.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;toursbylocals.bamboohr.com&#x2F;careers&#x2F;50?source=aWQ9MTc%3D" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;toursbylocals.bamboohr.com&#x2F;careers&#x2F;50?source=aWQ9MTc...</a>

I still use a lot of Saas because it is not trivial to host and run an open source app.For example, if I need Postiz to run I need a server and to configure and maintain a lot of services and dependancies:NX (Monorepo)
NextJS (React)
NestJS
Prisma (Default to PostgreSQL)
Redis (BullMQ)
Resend (email notifications)
PostizI use mailchimp, which is not cheap. But if I want to run Mautic, I need a linux server, with an http server and a database running. It as also a cost in money and time.I am a single man shop, so I don&#x27;t want a software to take me extra time when something is broken (or to give 4 hours of my time to install and run a clone of mailchimp).

Ask HN: There is an open-source alternative to almost any SaaS, what do you use?

Immich uses SvelteKit for its frontend: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;immich-app&#x2F;immich">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;immich-app&#x2F;immich</a>I’ve used it as a reference for a NestJS+SvelteKit app in the past, they did a pretty good job.

Svelte 5 Released

I think that&#x27;s how it works with nestjs&#x27;s observer setup with rxjs. I just return the SSE stream and it works. I use it with fastify, not express.

Express v5

Location: Tallinn, Estonia (UTC+3)Remote: YesWilling to relocate: Soft noTechnologies: Nodejs (Express, NestJS), React (NextJS), PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Terraform, AWS (S3, EC2, ECS, ECR, Lambdas, CloudFront, ...), RESTful APIs, BashLinkedIn: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;kristian-saarela-4316b5198&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;kristian-saarela-4316b5198&#x2F;</a>Email: saarela.kristian (at) protonmail (dot) comI have been working with javascript&#x2F;nodejs&#x2F;react for the last 8 years both in startups and in the financial sector. I have been involved in the development and improvement of existing systems as well as drawing up plans for the creation of new systems and helping to implement them. In my last job, I managed a small development team, helped conduct hackathons and dev guilds, contributed to the development of several platforms and was responsible for infrastructure, CI&#x2F;CD pipelines and developer experience.

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024)

Effect reminds me more of something like NestJS - essentially an end to end application framework that takes over your whole application.Rather disappoint to see something like this being plugged as an alternative to something like zod which is a nice library that stays in its corner and has a nice fixed scope to it&#x27;s functionality.

Zod: TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference


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## Description

Nest is a framework for building efficient, scalable [Node.js](http://nodejs.org) server-side applications. It uses modern JavaScript, is built with  [TypeScript](http://www.typescriptlang.org) preserves compatibility with pure JavaScript and combines elements of OOP (Object Oriented Programming), FP (Functional Programming), and FRP (Functional Reactive Programming).

Under the hood, Nest makes use of [Express](https://expressjs.com/), but also, provides compatibility with a wide range of other libraries, like e.g. [Fastify](https://github.com/fastify/fastify), allowing for easy use of the myriad third-party plugins which are available.

## Installation

```js
$ npm install
```

## Getting Started

Setting up a new project is quite simple. With npm installed, you can create a new Nest project with the following commands in your OS terminal:

```js
$ npm i -g @nestjs/cli
$ nest new project-name
```

## Running the app

```js
# development
$ npm run start

# watch mode
$ npm run start:dev

# production mode
$ npm run start:prod
```

## Test

```js
# unit tests
$ npm run test

# e2e tests
$ npm run test:e2e

# test coverage
$ npm run test:cov
```

## Support

Nest is an MIT-licensed open source project. It can grow thanks to the sponsors and support by the amazing backers. If you'd like to join them, please [read more here](https://opencollective.com/nest).

## Stay in touch

- Website - [https://nestjs.com](https://nestjs.com/)
- Twitter - [@nestframework](https://twitter.com/nestframework)

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