---
title: "How To Build a Type-Safe URL Shortener in NodeJS with NestJS"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-build-a-type-safe-url-shortener-in-nodejs-with-nestjs-jxda9dyah
source_url: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-build-a-type-safe-url-shortener-in-nodejs-with-nestjs
type: article
source: "DigitalOcean Community"
published: 2022-08-23T22:08:36.653Z
updated: 2022-08-23T22:08:36.653Z
tags: ["database", "nestjs"]
reading_time: 19
upvotes: 14
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# How To Build a Type-Safe URL Shortener in NodeJS with NestJS

**[DigitalOcean Community](https://daily.dev/sources/do_community)** · 19 min read · 14 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

The author selected the Tech Education Fund to receive a donation as part of the Write for DOnations program. You will install NestJS globally, generate a new NestJS application boilerplate, install dependencies, and create your project's TypeORM. This ORM works seamlessly with NestJS due to NestJS’s dedicated @nestjs/typeorm package. You will use this dependency to interact with an SQLite database.

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