
I built an Enterprise-grade LMS backend with NestJS 11 & Notion API (and I’m sharing the blueprint)
Hey everyone 👋, As a developer, I always found it frustrating to use platforms like Teachable or Kajabi for my courses. They are expensive, rigid, and honestly, the text editors suck. Since I already organize my entire life in Notion, I thought: Why not use Notion as a headless CMS for an LMS? So, I spent the last few months building Nexus LMS — an enterprise-grade backend architecture from scratch. 🛠️ The Stack (Built to be bulletproof): Backend: NestJS v11 (Node.js) Database: PostgreSQL + Prisma 7 ORM Security: JWT Authentication & Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Content: Dynamic sync with Notion API (write in Notion -> updates the course instantly) Infrastructure: Fully Dockerized, ready for Google Cloud Run / AWS Instead of just keeping it to myself, I polished the codebase, added strict end-to-end type safety, integrated a seamless Swagger UI, and packaged it as a template to save other devs ~400 hours of boilerplate setup. 🥷 The Distribution (Anti-Piracy Bot) I also built a Tele
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