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Practical GraphQL

Daniel Schmitz

GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data.

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GraphQL provides a complete and understandable description of the data in your API, gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more, makes it easier to evolve APIs over time, and enables powerful developer tools.

Learn through this book how to create a complete application using GraphQL.

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Daniel Schmitz

Daniel Schmitz is a software developer and writer. He's originally from Brazil and has published several books in Portuguese/English.

Contents

Table of Contents

1.Introduction

  1. 1.1How this work is organized
  2. 1.2Technologies employed
  3. 1.3Tables

2.Installation

3.Backend project

  1. 3.1Reloading changes automatically
  2. 3.2Server Configuration
  3. 3.2.1dotEnv
  4. 3.2.2Cors
  5. 3.2.3bodyParser
  6. 3.2.4Json Web Token
  7. 3.2.5Server port
  8. 3.3Database configuration
  9. 3.3.1Instalation
  10. 3.3.2Creating the users table (migration)
  11. 3.3.3Adding data (seed)
  12. 3.4GraphQL configuration
  13. 3.4.1Testing GraphQL
  14. 3.4.2Protecting GraphQL Interactive
  15. 3.4.3Updating data

4.Frontend project

  1. 4.1Installation
  2. 4.2Bulma installation
  3. 4.3Running the frontend project
  4. 4.4Knowing Vue
  5. 4.5Refactoring the Vue project
  6. 4.6Using GraphQL in Vue
  7. 4.7Using GraphQL to get data
  8. 4.8Displaying data on the screen
  9. 4.9Error handling

5.Authentication

  1. 5.1Configuring the server
  2. 5.1.1Schema creation
  3. 5.1.2Rosolver creation
  4. 5.1.3Creating the “/auth” API
  5. 5.1.4Testing the API
  6. 5.2Configuring the frontend
  7. 5.2.1Creating the login form
  8. 5.2.2Configuring Axios
  9. 5.2.3Definition of store
  10. 5.2.4Signup/login
  11. 5.2.5Displaying an error message
  12. 5.2.6Using Nested destructuring
  13. 5.2.7Displaying a welcome message
  14. 5.3Protecting the API with login
  15. 5.4Sending the token to backend
  16. 5.5Showing Graphiql without login
  17. 5.6Protecting routes with login
  18. 5.7Displaying the menu items according to the login

6.Modularizing the Graphql

  1. 6.1Modularizing the Schemas
  2. 6.2Modularizing the Resolvers

7.Doploying app at heroku servers

  1. 7.1Heroku client instalation
  2. 7.2Project preparation
  3. 7.3Defining the actions to build and execute the project in heroku
  4. 7.4Heroku project creation
  5. 7.5APP_VUE_API configuration
  6. 7.6heroku config
  7. 7.7Heroku deployment
  8. 7.8Setting up the remote database
  9. 7.9Testing the application
  10. 7.10Final considerations

8.Building the Category screen

  1. 8.1Categories table creation
  2. 8.2Creating the Graphql of categories
  3. 8.3Backend Deploy
  4. 8.4Categories frontend

9.Suppliers Screen

  1. 9.1Table creation
  2. 9.2Suppliers schema (with 1-to-1 relationship)
  3. 9.3Suppliers Resolver
  4. 9.4Frontend

10.Customer, employee and shipper screens

  1. 10.1Employee screen

11.Products Screen

  1. 11.1Backend
  2. 11.2Frontend

12.Orders Screen

  1. 12.1Backend
  2. 12.2Frontend

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