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Isomorphic JavaScript Web Development

By : Tomas Alabes, Konstantin Tarkus
Book Image

Isomorphic JavaScript Web Development

By: Tomas Alabes, Konstantin Tarkus

Overview of this book

<p>The latest trend in web development, Isomorphic JavaScript, allows developers to overcome some of the shortcomings of single-page applications by running the same code on the server as well as on the client. Leading this trend is React, which, when coupled with Node, allows developers to build JavaScript apps that are much faster and more SEO-friendly than single-page applications.</p> <p>This book begins by showing you how to develop frontend components in React. It will then show you how to bind these components to back-end web services that leverage the power of Node. You'll see how web services can be used with React code to offload and maintain the application logic. By the end of this book, you will be able to save a significant amount of development time by learning to combine React and Node to code fast, scalable apps in pure JavaScript.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Backing GraphQL server by a SQL data store


Now let's see how to back our GraphQL server by a SQLite database and Sequelize ORM. Using an object-relational mapper library (ORM) seems to be a good choice for SQL data access, especially when you concerned about the speed of development, and the best part is that even with an ORM you can always fall back to writing raw SQL queries when needed.

You start by creating a data/sequelize.js file that initializes a new instance of Sequelize client:

importSequelize from 'sequelize'; 
 
constsequelize = new Sequelize('sqlite:database.sqlite', { 
  define: { freezeTableName: true } 
}); 
 
export default sequelize; 

Now, create data models for each of the business entities of your app. For example, for a User entity you may want to create a model similar to this (data/model/User.js):

importDataType from 'sequelize'; 
import Model from '../sequelize'; 
 
const User = Model.define('User', { 
  id: { 
    type: DataType.INTEGER, 
    primaryKey: true, 
    autoIncrement...