A few days ago, I published an article that introduced an optimal way to handle permissions in Node.js in its entirety.

It's an approach that dismisses you from hard-locking permissions from arbitrary statements like "Pharmacy can perform this," "if (!Pharmacy) throw error," etc.

It's a common concept known as Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), which you'll find in advanced systems.

This article will address why and how to get this done in NestJS.

NB: We'll be speaking in NestJS language for the sake of this article.

When RBAC Fails

Maintainability

Imagine you have an app with multiple roles — pharmacy, customer, doctor — and you've handled all the necessary role handling.

Enough…

@ Roles ( Roles .…