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

By : Sebastian Grebe
Book Image

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)

Setting up Docker

Publishing an application is a critical step that requires a lot of work and care. Many things can go wrong when releasing a new version.

We have already made sure that we can test our application before it goes live. After deployment, we will have Apollo Engine, which will inform us about anything that goes well and anything that goes wrong.

The real act of transforming our local files into a production-ready package, which is then uploaded to a server, is the most onerous task. Regular applications generally rely on a server that is preconfigured with all the packages that the application needs to run. For example, when looking at a standard PHP setup, most people rent a preconfigured server. This means that the PHP runtime, with all of the extensions, like the MySQL PHP library, are installed via the built-in package manager of the operating system. This procedure...