create-progressive

The scaffolder for Progressive — a full-stack framework for Angular and NestJS: one repo, one build, and in production a single Node.js process serving both your API and your rendered pages.

Usage

npm create progressive@latest my-app
cd my-app
npm install
npm run dev

That's it — you get:

• Angular 21 (SSR, zoneless) + NestJS 11 (Fastify), running as a single Node.js process in production.
• A typed API bridge: npm run generate:api turns your Nest controllers/DTOs into typed Angular httpResource functions automatically (via @nestjs/swagger + orval) — no hand-written fetch/HttpClient calls, no duplicated response types.
• HMR in dev (npm run dev): Angular's own dev server on :4200 with full hot reload, NestJS on :3000, proxied together so it feels like one app on one port.
• An apprunner.yaml ready for a one-click AWS App Runner deploy.

Why

Angular and NestJS were never designed to run as one product — each has its own build tooling, its own server, its own conventions. @progrest/ssr-nest (the library this scaffolds on top of) is the glue: it mounts Angular's SSR engine inside a NestJS (Fastify) host, so one process serves both your API and your rendered pages, with real NestJS underneath — controllers, dependency injection, guards, modules — not a stripped-down backend.

Full write-up of how it works: github.com/rortizv/progressive.