🛠️ Advanced Nest.js CLI (ANC)

A powerful command-line tool to boost your productivity when working with NestJS projects.
Generate boilerplate code for DTOs and more — cleanly, consistently, and fast.

Resources for CRUD controllers: controllers, services, DTOs and tests are usually very similar. This tool should help speed up the creation of the new CRUD controller in existing Nest.js project.

📦 Installation

npm install -g advanced-nestjs-cli

🚀 Usage

anc [command] [...args]

📚 Available Commands

Command	Description
`anc generate dto <name> [path]`	Generates DTO files for all CRUD operations
`anc generate controller <name> [path]`	Generated Controller file with methods for all CRUD operations

📦 Example

anc g dto user

This will generate:

create-user-request-body.dto.ts
create-user-response.dto.ts
delete-user-request-params.dto.ts
edit-user-request-body.dto.ts
edit-user-request-params.dto.ts
edit-user-response.dto.ts
get-user-request-params.dto.ts
get-user-response.dto.ts
user.dto.ts

You can also specify a custom path:

anc g dto product ./app/dtos/user

Note: path must lead to the existing folder

💡 Features

🔧 Fast and consistent DTO boilerplate generation
🧼 Follows NestJS file naming and structure conventions
💼 CLI-first developer experience

🛠 Roadmap

[ ] controller boilerplate generation for CRUD
[ ] Automatic annotations with @nestjs/swagger decorators of controller boilerplate
[ ] service boilerplate generation for CRUD
[ ] Support controller + service + dto generation (connected)
[ ] logger boilerplate generation
[ ] test boilerplate generation for CRUD
[ ] Migrate to typescript
[ ] Add linter
[ ] Full coverage with tests

🤝 Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first
to discuss what you would like to change.

📄 License

MIT