Phase 4 · JavaScript & TypeScript for Backend

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Decorators (Basics)

Part of the Backend Developer Roadmap.

Summary

An experimental TypeScript feature that lets you annotate classes and methods with metadata (`@Controller`, `@Get`) — the syntax that frameworks like NestJS build their entire API around.

How to Learn This

  • 1Read a few `@Decorator` examples from a NestJS controller and guess what each does.
  • 2Understand decorators are mostly a framework-level feature — you'll consume them more than write your own early on.
  • 3Enable the `experimentalDecorators` tsconfig option to try one yourself.
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