Node.js Microservice with NestJS: Part 1 - Service Overview
Overview of the tour-service Over the next few posts we will dig into building the tour-service. In this post we will briefly go over what the service will do and its primary components that we will be building out in subsequent posts. For more details about the entire application we will be building and deploying, check out the prior posts: An Overview of the App - An overiew of the entire application we will be building, both frontend and backend. Setting up our monorepo with Turborepo, pnpm, React Native, Expo, and NestJS - An overview of our repo layout and build tools. What will the tour-service do? The tour-service accepts REST API calls containing a user's current GPS coordinates and returns information about nearby points of interest, which we will be referring to as Landmarks. The tour-service queries data providers such as Wikipedia to get information about Landmarks within a given distance of the user's coordinates then returns a list of those La...