Building the Reading Tracker API with NestJS

You'll create a dedicated module for managing books, complete with endpoints for creating, reading, updating, and deleting records. You'll learn to validate incoming data using DTOs and handle dynamic route parameters to interact with specific resources.

Add secure authentication and authorization to your Reading Tracker API. Implement user registration, login with JWT, and role-based access control to protect routes and enable admin-level actions for a production-ready backend.

You’ll harden and polish the Reading Tracker API built in the first three courses. First, you’ll enforce ownership so users can only modify their own reading progress. Then you’ll add centralized request logging, standardize both success and error responses across the API, and finally refactor to a global JWT guard with a `@Public()` decorator so security is easy to scale.

Add social features to your reading tracker API. You’ll model friendships and friend requests, expose endpoints to send/accept/decline requests, list a user’s friends, and securely retrieve a friend’s reading progress—all while composing the existing UsersService and ReadingService.

Enhance your Reading Tracker API with advanced catalog features—metadata, search, filtering, sorting, and analytics. Support per-user reading progress, shelves, and statistics to deliver a polished, frontend-ready experience.