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Full Stack Development with Angular and GraphQL

By : Ahmed Bouchefra
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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

Technical requirements

To complete this chapter, you are required to have Node.js and npm installed on your local development machine. Please refer to Chapter 1, App Architecture and Development Environment, for instructions on how to install them if you haven't done so yet.

You also need to be familiar with the following technologies:

  • JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Git, Node.js, and Express
  • GraphQL concepts such as schemas and types

If you need a refresher of GraphQL concepts, check out https://graphql.org/learn/. This is the official documentation for GraphQL schemas and it explains various features of the schema and how to use them with the schema language.

You can find the complete source code for this chapter at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Full-Stack-App-Development-with-Angular-and-GraphQL/tree/main/Chapter02. Alternatively, you can go to https://git.io/JKZpT. Make sure that you consult the history, which contains the commits for the major steps...