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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to sign up to and set up Apollo Engine. You should now understand all the features that Apollo Engine provides and how to make use of collected data. We also looked at how to set up cacheControl and Automatic Persisted Queries to improve the performance of your application.

In the next chapter, we'll finally deploy a production release of Graphbook, with the help of CircleCI and Heroku.