NestJS Basics#11 - Pipes in NestJS

Transformation and Validation

Welcome to Part 11 of the NestJS Basics course.

In the previous post, we looked at interceptors in NestJS. The main topics were as follows:

• What is a NestJS interceptor?

• Understanding the concept of Aspect-Oriented Programming

• Creating a NestJS Interceptor

• Binding the Interceptor

  • controller-scoped

  • method-scoped

  • global-scoped

If you haven’t gone through it yet, you can check out the post on the NestJS interceptors below:

NestJS Basics#10 - Interceptors in NestJS

In today’s post, I’m going to introduce the concept of pipes in NestJS. This is the last major fundamental concept in NestJS.

The Plan

Here are the things we will cover:

• What is a Pipe?

• How to use a built-in pipe?

• Customizing the built-in pipe