NestJS + NextJS + AWS Cognito Example

Working example for setting up AWS Cognito for NestJS as backend and NextJS as frontend

Features

• Authenticate AWS Cognito on NestJS backend, using NextJS as frontend with proxy middleware to prevent CORS & utilize httpOnly cookies.
• GraphQL login with automatic JWT token refresh
• REST login (TODO)

Setup

• Create AWS Cognito User Pool

• Edit backend .env and add AWS Cognito credentials

• Edit frontend .env and specify urls

• Run both frontend & backend on port 3000 & 4000 respectively

  yarn --cwd frontend-nextjs dev
  yarn --cwd backend-nestjs dev