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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

Implementing a presentational post component

The post component will only be presentational. It doesn't inject any services and it communicates with the parent components (containers such as the feed posts and profile components) with input properties and events.

Check out https://www.webtutpro.com/smart-dumb-components-in-angular-3c51ae6efcc4 for more information about smart (container) and dumb (presentational) components.

The post component takes as input the post and authUser properties, which should be passed from the parent component(s) to enable the component to render the post and information about the post's author. It also emits a bunch of custom events to the parent components, such as the following:

  • A comment event that fires when the user comments on a post
  • A like event that fires when the user likes a post
  • A remove event that fires when the user removes a post
  • A listComments event that fires when the user wants to display a post&apos...