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You might want to access the configuration, for example to set the microservice configuration based on the values from the configuration service. One way to do this is to create an application context from the AppModule. const appContext = await NestFactory.createApplicationContext(BootstrapConfigModule) const configService = appContext.get(ConfigService) const SERVICE_PORT = configService.get('SERVICE_PORT') appContext.close() But a better idea is to use a “temporary” module to avoid double instantiation of the whole app. See a full example below. import { Module } from '@nestjs/common' import { ConfigService } from '@nestjs/config' import { NestFactory } from '@nestjs/core' import { MicroserviceOptions, Transport } from '@nestjs/microservices' import { AppModule } from './app.module' // Bootstrap configuration module is needed to avoid // doing the DI resolution twice @Module({ providers: [ConfigService], exports: [ConfigService], }) class BootstrapConfigModule {} async function bootstrap() { const appContext = await NestFactory.createApplicationContext(BootstrapConfigModule) const configService = appContext.get(ConfigService) const SERVICE_PORT = configService.get('SERVICE_PORT') appContext.close() const app = await NestFactory.createMicroservice<MicroserviceOptions>(AppModule, { transport: Transport.TCP, options: { port: SERVICE_PORT, }, }) await app.listen() } bootstrap() Why would you need to use the configuration service instead of process.env you might ask. Well, while that may work, it doesn’t offer any type safety or support for fallbacks. ...

Let’s consider a situation where you have two collections, houses and people. Each house has a collection of key holders, which link to the persons collection with their IDs. Key holders list also holds information when the key was given for the identified person. In bson, the situation in the database looks like this: { "houses": [ { "_id": ObjectId("5fba17c1c4566e57fafdcd7e"), "address": "Main street 1", "keyHolders": [ { "keyDelivered": "2022-02-02T02:02:02", "personId": "5fbb5ab778045a985690b5fc" }, { "keyDelivered": "2021-01-01T01:01:01", "personId": "5fbb5ab778045a985690b5fd" } ] }, { "_id": ObjectId("5fba17c1c4566e57fafdcd7f"), "address": "Broadway 3", "keyHolders": [ { "keyDelivered": "1993-03-03T03:03:03", "personId": "5fbb5ab778045a985690b5fc" } ] } ], "persons": [ { "_id": ObjectId("5fbb5ab778045a985690b5fc"), "name": "Jack Bauer", }, { "_id": ObjectId("5fbb5ab778045a985690b5fd"), "name": "James Bond", } ] } You can also do some mapping for the source list, for instance convert foreign keys from strings to ObjectIds. ...