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Hello MTA community! My name is Ehsan/Exxon I’m excited to share a project I’ve been working on: mtasa-nestjs – a high-level API server framework for MTA:SA, inspired by Express.js and NestJS. What is mtasa-nestjs? mtasa-nestjs is a modular, structured Lua framework that makes building server-side APIs for MTA:SA simpler and more scalable. It brings modern backend patterns like Controllers, Middlewares, Guards, Interceptors, and DTOs directly into MTA:SA resources. It’s perfect for developers who want to build secure, maintainable, and professional APIs for their game servers. Key Features Express.js / NestJS-inspired structure: Clear separation of concerns for Controllers, Middlewares, Guards, and Interceptors. JWT Authentication & Password Hashing: Built-in secure JWT (HS256) implementation and password hashing from scratch. DTO Support: Validate and structure input data for cleaner code. Middlewares & Guards: Handle CORS, JSON parsing, authentication, authorization, and more. No External Dependencies: Works out-of-the-box in Lua for MTA:SA. Why I Built This Many MTA:SA servers handle HTTP requests in an ad-hoc manner, often leading to messy and hard-to-maintain code. With mtasa-nestjs, you can structure your API like a professional backend framework, making your server easier to scale and maintain. Example Usage Creating a JWT Token: local token = jwt.encode({userId = 123, role = "admin"}, "SECRET_KEY") iprint(token) Protecting Endpoints with Guards: AuthGuard = function(ctx) local authHeader = ctx.headers["authorization"] if not authHeader then error(Exception.Unauthorized("Missing Authorization header")) end local token = authHeader:match("^Bearer%s+(.+)$") local payload = jwt.verify(token, "SECRET_KEY") ctx.user = payload return true end Why You Should Try It If you’ve ever wanted a clean, structured, and modern API architecture for your MTA:SA server, this is a great starting point. It’s fully modular, fully Lua-based, and ready to handle complex server-side logic with minimal fuss. Where to Get It Ready on my github repository called mtsa-nestjs Make sure to create your own controllers, guards and etc. I’d love to hear feedback from the community. If you try it out, let me know what features you find most useful or what could be improved. Happy coding!

Amazing stuff! Thanks a lot. Will test it out and surely will share it accross racing. I think I know how to implement this.

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Yeah. I've seen this documentation. So much to start with xD. But yesterday i checked it and downloaded server folder from github repo. I thought that there will be more code. But for my luck that code is acceptably short. Like i guess still month to understand all functions, and how to call them. But one month to start code something is not that wrong. Anyway. Thank you so much for your help. For now i decided to make my own buffer system as module. As im not having problems with understanding C/C++ it will be easier even for me to make whole server as C code lol. I can make that module as lua script. But i like to keep everything organized. When i'll get courage to make that module. Maybe also i'll get will to make my own documentation and publish it. So no one longer gonna strugle with modules. Anyway. Thank you for your help again and your recomendations. From me i can recommend you getting in to C languages. Getting point of how them work improve also skills in lua. As you are "closer" to machine. I think that this topic can be locked.

I have no experience with C++ myself nor with modules. But I do know that Lua is fast enough for a basic gamemode. The moment C++ might become important is when you want to implement something like pathfinding. There are other things that can save you more resources. For example using less timers. Most of the time getTickCount / getRealTime is more than enough. Or use as less as possible element data. Sort of : https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/Modules_Introduction

Ofc you are right. and this should always be good advice for everyone to not mess with critical data. i know it, and more programmers should know that. i like to organize everything in hierarchy of importance. like cars possitions can be lost if something happens wrong. as that's not so crucial to server working after shutdown. and in database are still hold relativeley "fresh" data, like vehicle possitions and so on. But money and housing systems for examples are 1st or 2nd importance. so it must be sure that after buying a house money amount is right and house owner is assigned afap in buffer and database. and ofc validate everything. yeah i know that i can do that this way. but i was thinking about directly working with server objects. like buffermodule takes objects how they real look like. and scan only for lets say vehicles. and all previous ideas of how it will be implemented in lua. and make them in Cpp instead of lua. oldtable newtable etc. direct calling from module to built in dbFunctions should be faster in theory. and if i use some coroutines i can prevent that way server from lagging. but still keeping the lua code just to drive module. but i can mistaken somewhere and what i think can be fast. can also be not fast. on one side i can then keep everything hardly bounded together. but on the other side it can be error generating nightmare. what i know from experience in Cpp xD. and my question is. do i'm right about it? and if so. are there good sources to start with it? cause personaly i didn't found anything more usefull on the internet than example module. and ofc mta blue repo. im having in mind some sort of documentation. cause looking at servers source code just to get an idea of how module should look like and work pushes me back even from trying. im doing it everyday, so getting point of my mates is my second nature. but mta blue server is a lot of code. so i guess my natural questions are. if there is a chance that server can save 5% to 10% of power and space. is there any code documentation? so i can short my working time on module. ofc if im right that it can save cycles. i never wrote mta module, and didn't heard opinions of people who did. maybe someone is reading this rn. please get in to discussion. you can help me and others just by getting in to discussion. EDIT also thanks for earlier replying @IIYAMA

For some changes it is a good way to save resource. Like for example statistics or car fuel. But do not do it for critical data. When for example your power shuts down, it could create weir de-syncs. (Like if you were buying a house ingame: you do not receive the house [in buffer] but the money has already been withdrawn [not in buffer]) You can use MySQL + dbConnect, instead of writing a custom module. The current MySQL module available is blocking the CPU thread, so that is not really an option for 200 players in my opinion. Also a way to save resources, is to enable multi_statements: local connection = dbConnect("sqlite", "database/database.db", "", "", "multi_statements=1") When for example if you want to remove data at multiple tables. dbExec(connection, "DELETE FROM shared_memory_file WHERE clientId = ?;DELETE FROM shared_memory_frame WHERE clientId = ?;DELETE FROM shared_memory_frame_position WHERE clientId = ?", clientId, clientId, clientId) Or get data from multiple tables: dbQuery(processRequestSharedMemory, { player, clientId }, connection, [[ SELECT variantKey, item, fileData FROM shared_memory_file WHERE clientId = ?; SELECT x, y, item FROM shared_memory_frame WHERE clientId = ?; SELECT x, y, z FROM shared_memory_frame_position WHERE clientId = ? LIMIT 1 ]], clientId, clientId, clientId)

Ty so much for reply. Yes i had same thing in head about how buffer should look like. Changing only values that has changed etc. I didn't precised it well. By sending tables to database every 30s. i was thinking about mechanism that also stacks changed values to certain amount. Like old table and new table concept. Lets say im checking every 30s if cars changed their position. I compare old table with new. And values that has changed i move to some sort of stack. And stack is let say sent every 4 cycles of checking car positions. Before that stack is sent to database he's checked for latest values and reduced in size. By validating what comes from client i was thinking about putting clever anticheat trigger mechanism. Like while checking for changes. It's checking if that change was possible with my scripts for cars. Is car moving too fast or something. If it's. Then anticheat is triggered. and let me end here about anticheat mechanism. But ty also for mentioning your script. I'll take a look on it. Also by outside database i was thinking about LAMP thing in LANetwork on the other physical device. As i wanna only let one device to talk with the world. Just to reduce risk. Im sharing same network so i need to keep packs small so i have transfer reserved for server talking to trustfull world. Not exact desciption on purpouse here. Im having physical hardware so CPU and RAM are not problem. Problem is rational use of power. As i want to run my server independent. And made it most watt per player ratio effective. And keep it cheap. As im not planing earn money from server. Sorry for not mentioning details, but i didn't knew how to describe it all earlier and now too. as english is not my great side. Also ty for yours recommendations. Especialy about last one i forgot about that nice feature EDIT ADD Isn't it better for me to just make mta module that handle this stuff with multi core rather than single threaded lua? TheoreticaIy it should save me cycles on lua. And let them to be used more productive on bare bone server mechanics and scripting. And if so. what are good sources to begin with mta modules.

Buffers can be useful. Because you can only pick a server with a good CPU once. Sometimes you can upgrade the CPU, but there is a limit. While with ram, it is easier to upgrade. MTA Lua processes are afaik still is single threaded. But you need to invest a lot of time. I can be. An example db resource I made a while a go, not very efficient storage (text/string based), but easy to use. Not sure why I build the types text based, I would have build it differently now a days. Also recommended to write automatic tests for your creation, like I did with mine in sub folder \dev\*. You can storage md5 hash validation strings for validation, if you are interested in that. Smaller hash storage [binary]: using the UNHEX(hash) function (convert back with HEX(binary). Example resource that uses hash validation for client screenshots. I am not one of them. But I do work often met databases. I have put my recommendation in a spoiler if you are still interested:

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Some crashes in 32 bit Windows are caused by MTA running out of address space. The best solution is to use 64 bit Windows. For 32 bit Windows, these MTA settings may help a little: 1) Settings->Advanced->Fast CJ clothes loading->Off 2) Settings->Advanced->Streaming memory->Min 3) Remove all GTA:SA graphic mods (GTA:SA reinstall is ideal) Or, you could try enabling the 3GB switch in 32 bit Windows Details at this link In summary, for 32 bit Windows 7,8,10: 1) Find C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe in Windows Explrorer 2) Right click on cmd.exe and select 'Run as Administrator' 3) In the black box enter this command: bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVa 3072 4) Press return 5) Restart computer 6) Pray

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