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Mark Pieszak

Excellent write up Laurie! I'm happy to see how you distinguished NestJS to avoid confusion for others! :)

A nice way for others to think about NestJS for anyone still confused:

Think of it as a superset or abstraction ABOVE Node.js.
It can be interchangeably used with Express or Fastify under the hood.

But it's an amazingly declarative, structured, dependency-injection flavored layer on-top of Node.js that let's you build really organized serverside applications.

Great write up again!

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Laurie

That’s a great way of putting it. Appreciate you adding that 😊 I’m always of the belief that multiple explanations help different people understand topics.

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Mark Pieszak

Definitely!! We've also been experiencing a bit of confusion with Nest (due to the unfortunate name similarity).
You made my day with your spot on explanation!! Bravo :)

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Laurie

Thanks so much :) Was a nice excuse to make sure I knew the differences!