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Hands-on Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React

By : Sebastian Grebe
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Hands-on Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React

By: Sebastian Grebe

Overview of this book

React, one of the most widely used JavaScript frameworks, allows developers to build fast and scalable front end applications for any use case. GraphQL is the modern way of querying an API. It represents an alternative to REST and is the next evolution in web development. Combining these two revolutionary technologies will give you a future-proof and scalable stack you can start building your business around. This book will guide you in implementing applications by using React, Apollo, Node.js and SQL. We'll focus on solving complex problems with GraphQL, such as abstracting multi-table database architectures and handling image uploads. Our client, and server will be powered by Apollo. Finally we will go ahead and build a complete Graphbook. While building the app, we'll cover the tricky parts of connecting React to the back end, and maintaining and synchronizing state. We'll learn all about querying data and authenticating users. We'll write test cases to verify the front end and back end functionality for our application and cover deployment. By the end of the book, you will be proficient in using GraphQL and React for your full-stack development requirements.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Continuous Deployment with CircleCI and Heroku

In the last two chapters, we prepared our application through tests with Mocha and added detailed reporting of our GraphQL API by introducing Apollo Engine. We have built an application that is ready for the production environment.

We will now generate a production build that's ready for deployment. We've arrived at the point where we can set up our Heroku app and implement the ability to build and deploy Docker images through a continuous deployment workflow.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Production-ready bundling
  • What is Docker?
  • What is continuous integration/deployment?
  • Configuring Docker
  • Setting up continuous deployment with CircleCI
  • Deploying our application to Heroku