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Full Stack Development with Angular and GraphQL

By : Ahmed Bouchefra
Book Image

Full Stack Development with Angular and GraphQL

By: Ahmed Bouchefra

Overview of this book

GraphQL is an alternative to traditional REST technology for querying Web APIs. Together with Angular and TypeScript, it provides a tech stack option for building future-proof web applications that are robust and maintainable at any scale. This book leverages the potential of cutting-edge technologies like GraphQL and Apollo and helps Angular developers add it to their stack. Starting with introducing full-stack development, you will learn to create a monorepo project with Lerna and NPM Workspaces. You will then learn to configure Node.js-based backend using GraphQL, Express, and Apollo Server. The book will demonstrate how to build professional-looking UIs with Angular Material. It will then show you how to create Web APIs for your frontend with GraphQL. All this in a step-by-step manner. The book covers advanced topics such as local state management, reactive variables, and generating TypeScript types using the GraphQL scheme to develop a scalable codebase. By the end of this book, you'll have the skills you need to be able to build your full-stack application.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1: Setting Up the Development Environment, GraphQL Server, and Database
7
Part 2: Building the Angular Frontend with Realtime Support
13
Part 3: Adding Realtime Support

Testing the auth service and component(s)

Before we finish implementing the auth section, we need to add automatic tests to our implementation to detect any hidden errors that we might miss when manually testing.

When we generate our project with the Angular command-line interface (Angular CLI), we also have testing configured with a number of initial tests that are added to ensure that artifacts, such as components and services, are properly instantiated.

If you're new to Angular testing, start by reading https://angular.io/guide/testing and https://techiediaries.com/angular/jasmine-unit-testing, then learn how to write your first test suite at https://jasmine.github.io/tutorials/your_first_suite.

Also, before testing Apollo Client APIs, make sure to read the official testing documentation at https://apollo-angular.com/docs/development-and-testing/testing/.

Jasmine includes a set of APIs that make it simple to write unit tests. We basically have three options, as...