AWS NestJS with Redis

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Creates a hit counter app with NestJS and Redis.

Note

You need Node 22.12 or higher for this example to work.

Also make sure you have Node 22.12. Or set the --experimental-require-module flag. This’ll allow NestJS to import the SST SDK.

This deploys NestJS as a Fargate service to ECS and it’s linked to Redis.

sst.config.ts

new sst.aws.Service("MyService", {
  cluster,
  link: [redis],
  loadBalancer: {
    ports: [{ listen: "80/http", forward: "3000/http" }],
  },
  dev: {
    command: "npm run start:dev",
  },
});

Since our Redis cluster is in a VPC, we’ll need a tunnel to connect to it from our local machine.

sudo npx sst tunnel install

This needs sudo to create a network interface on your machine. You’ll only need to do this once on your machine.

To start your app locally run.

npx sst dev

Now if you go to http://localhost:3000 you’ll see a counter update as you refresh the page.

Finally, you can deploy it using npx sst deploy --stage production using a Dockerfile that’s included in the example.

sst.config.ts

const vpc = new sst.aws.Vpc('MyVpc', { bastion: true });
const redis = new sst.aws.Redis('MyRedis', { vpc });
const cluster = new sst.aws.Cluster('MyCluster', { vpc });

new sst.aws.Service('MyService', {
  cluster,
  link: [redis],
  loadBalancer: {
    ports: [{ listen: '80/http', forward: '3000/http' }],
  },
  dev: {
    command: 'npm run start:dev',
  },
});

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