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Build a URL Shortener using React, Apollo and GraphQL

Peter Jausovec and Stanley Nguyen

Learn how to build a simple URL shortener using React, Apollo and GraphQL. This ebook will help you quickly get started with React, Apollo and Graphcool - a managed GraphQL service.

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Learn how to build a simple URL shortener using React, Apollo and GraphQL. This ebook will help you quickly get started with React, Apollo and Graphcool - a managed GraphQL service. You will learn how to create a new React app and install all prerequisites that are needed to start using Apollo and GraphQL. You will create multiple components that fetch and display data using GraphQL queries, create serverless functions using Graphcool and implement login and signup functionality for the project.

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Peter Jausovec

Peter Jausovec is a software engineer with more than ten years of experience in the field of software development and tech. During his career, he spent time in various roles, starting with QA then moving to software engineering and leading tech teams. His early career was mostly focused on developer and cloud tooling; however, in recent years he has been focusing on developing distributed systems cloud-native solutions.

Stanley Nguyen

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Table of Contents

Introduction

  1. Intended Audience
  2. Source Code
  3. How To Use This Book
  4. IGetting Started

1.Development Setup

  1. 1.1Prerequisites
  2. 1.2Creating the Project
  3. 1.3Setting up GraphQL
  4. 1.4Setting up Apollo
  5. 1.5Building React Components
  6. IIWorking with GraphQL

2.Queries, Mutations and Subscriptions

  1. 2.1Using GraphQL Queries
  2. Query API
  3. 2.2Using GraphQL Mutations
  4. Shortening Strings using Base 62 Encoding
  5. 2.3Using GraphQL Subscriptions
  6. IIIServerless Functions

3.Creating Serverless Hashing Function

  1. 3.1Before and After Operations
  2. 3.2Subscriptions
  3. 3.3Resolvers
  4. 3.4Choosing the Function Type
  5. 3.5Using Subscription to Implement the Hash Function
  6. 3.6Testing the Function

4.React Router

  1. 4.1Routing Setup
  2. 4.2Tracking Clicks
  3. IVUser Authentication
  4. 4.3Login and Sign-Up React Components
  5. 4.4Adding Auth Support to Graphcool Service
  6. 4.5Add the template
  7. 4.6Sign me up!
  8. 4.7Log me in!
  9. 4.8Add Authorization Token to Apollo
  10. 4.9Linking Data Models
  11. VDeployment
  12. 4.10Environment Variables
  13. 4.11Building our React app
  14. 4.12Deployment

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