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NestJS remains a top choice for enterprise backend development in 2025, offering structured architecture through dependency injection, deep TypeScript integration, and a comprehensive ecosystem. The framework addresses common Node.js development challenges with standardized code patterns, automatic type inference, and built-in support for databases, authentication, API documentation, and microservices. Major companies like Autodesk, Adidas, and Netflix use NestJS for production applications. While slightly slower than Express, NestJS provides significant improvements in code maintainability, developer onboarding, and type safety, making it ideal for enterprise-scale applications.

NestJS in 2025: Still Worth It for Backend Developers?

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NestJS in 2025: Still Worth It for Backend Developers?

Nestjs is so good and it taught me many things about backend systems, for example the life cycle of a request. I really like how it is structured: guards, pipes, interceptors, … This is so much better than pack everything in a simple express middleware.

Nest js is another ridicolus try to force node.js to become java.
all this verbosity, o.o.p depndency injection hell and magic for doing same thing you can do with express (or similar) with 2 lines of code.
The example of express in the article is also very misleading saying more about the coder then express itself.

No, not worth it. It’s too old fashioned and do not have any new innovations anymore

I’ve just built this application from scratch using NestJS for the backend, and it works perfectly: <a href="https://clipbake.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://clipbake.com</a>