GraphQL Basics

This repo was made to explore graphQL with node and apollo following along with this udemy course

Check out the production deployment: production playground

Getting Started

prerequisites:

• Node v8+ / NPM

Install

1. Download required dependencies:
   • $ npm install -g prisma
   • docker ce for appropriate operating system
   • docker-engine for appropriate operating system
2. Configure Heroku (or other host site)
3. Run $ npm install
4. Run $ npm run dev
5. Visit graphql playground to run queries
6. Connect to frontend

OR

production playground

Run In development (local)

npm run prisma-deploy-dev

Run in development (remote)

Push to production (after initial authentication)

git status

git add .

git commit -m "commit message here"

heroku push main

npm run prisma-deploy-prod

Dependency Notes

• graphql-yoga - for running the server
• graphql-cli - for running common graphql commands from the command line
• prisma - for managing database queries in accordance with schema (ORM+)
• Docker - for deployment with heroku
• Heroku - hosting the database and server
• Nodemon - for server refresh on file change during development
• babel[plugins] - for TS/ES7+ etc.
• bcrypt - for password hashing
• env cmd - for environment path mapping
• jest - mock testing framework
• jwt - for tokens
• uuid - for random id generation