Structured product records.
Give businesses structured product information they can use.
Where this work fits
Inventory work needed more than a product name. Price, quantity, category, availability, and publication status described different things, and users needed to create, find, and update those records.
I contributed product-record APIs using NestJS, TypeORM, and PostgreSQL. The records kept price, quantity, category, availability, and publication status distinct, so updates could describe what had actually changed about a product.
Give a product a useful record
Desk lamp
One record also holds its name, category, item type, and publication status.
A product can be published but out of stock, or available but not yet published. Each status answers a different question.
An unpublished product is not an out-of-stock product.
I kept publication and availability as separate fields rather than compressing them into one status. Create and update requests shared validation rules, while partial updates let a user change a field without resubmitting the entire record.
The skills behind the work
- NestJS
- Organize backend endpoints, validation, and services around product responsibilities.
- TypeORM
- Work with relational records through typed queries and repository operations.
- Data modeling
- Give different product concepts clear records and relationships so updates have predictable meaning.
The inventory services supported structured product entry, filtered retrieval, and updates. Businesses could manage those details through defined API operations.