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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

Chapter 9: Uploading Images and Adding Posts

In the previous chapter, we finished implementing the authentication system by adding the authentication guard and unit tests.

In this chapter, we will start implementing the profile component's functionality. We'll add the necessary code to fetch the user that corresponds to a profile URL and render their information on the page, including the ability to upload the user's photo and cover image, as well as adding a biography.

We'll use extra tools such as GraphQL Code Generator to generate code and automatically infer variable and result types rather than manually specifying them, which keeps our code clean, maintainable, and scalable.

We will cover the following topics:

  • Image uploading with Angular and Apollo
  • Implementing the post service
  • Implementing the profile service
  • Implementing the base component
  • Implementing the profile component
  • Creating the profile UI
  • Implementing the...