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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

Summary

In this final chapter, we learned how to configure Apollo Client for GraphQL subscriptions and then added code to display notifications in the application's header using a badge.

Throughout this book, we have used cutting-edge technologies such as Angular and GraphQL to develop a full stack application with a monorepo architecture using Lerna. We used Apollo on both the client and server to send and respond to GraphQL queries.

After setting up the development environment and installing Node.js, we built a server with GraphQL support to implement the backend using Express.js and Apollo Server. We also used Apollo Studio to communicate with our GraphQL API before we started developing a frontend application to consume the API and present a user interface to users to communicate with the backend.

After that, we explained how to install Express.js and configure it with TypeScript and GraphQL. We used mocking to provide a working GraphQL server with Apollo Server...