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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 10: Fetching Posts and Adding Comments and Likes

In the previous chapters, we introduced you to Apollo Client and demonstrated how to integrate it with our Angular frontend. We also implemented authentication and image uploading, shielded the feed's posts component from unauthenticated users, and built a header component with the application's navigation buttons and a search bar to search for users in our network using their full names.

We then began creating a profile component, which allows users to add their biography, cover image, and photo, as well as create posts.

In this chapter, we'll begin by dealing with an authentication token expiration issue, which we'll describe later, and then we'll continue working on our profile component by sending queries to receive paginated posts and comments data, and mutations to add comments and likes to posts.

The following topics will be covered:

  • Improving the authentication system
  • Adding...