Project made with nest and use Sequelize JWT And what about this repo ? This project is a starter kit which implement the following : Nest.js Sequelize (ORM) Umzug (Migration) Dotenv (Evironement variable) JWT (For Json Web Token authentication) How it works To format code npm run format Start the server npm start To run up/down migration npm run migrate {up/down} Configuration To configure put all config file in the ./src/config/* . To use the env variable, remove .demo from .env.demo .