ultimate-backend VS testing-nestjs

It's REST only ATM. There are other GraphQL alternatives, like https://github.com/juicycleff/ultimate-backend

I don’t personally know of any repos with that architecture, however if you’d like to look more into microservices in NestJs check out the ultimate-backend repo on GitHub

To echo the other's here, Nx has been an amazing dev experience for me! I use it for ogma, for nest-commander, testing-nestjs, and for nest-samples and @nest-lab/, all using pnpm as a package manager.

The prisma sample app in the testing-nestjs repository does a great job on showing how to do testing a NestJS app with Prisma.

Example https://github.com/jmcdo29/testing-nestjs/blob/8519ae7043d1dde5ae12a5d8f8ab02ea3c3c2fcf/apps/complex-sample/src/cat/cat.interceptor.spec.ts

Question: for your e2e tests will you be using something like supertestto send the gql request? And if so, could I suggest you look at pactum which (in my opinion) has a stronger API and better gql support. I've got an example here if you need it

Test files usually shouldn't be too large. You should just need a simple mock for each injected dependency for the service. You can see a lot of examples I have here. If you could show your test file it may help us figure out why it might be really large.

Then there's also a @nestjs/testing package that can be used for overriding these injections during tests to make for super easy unit testing (in my opinion) and a large repo of examples here.