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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

Creating TypeORM entities

In this part, we'll create entities that represent our social network database. An entity is a TypeScript class that has been annotated with the @Entity() decorator that corresponds to a database table.

When working with a database using plain SQL rather than an ORM, you begin by creating database tables. With TypeORM, we must also begin by creating entities.

Add the @Entity() decorator to the class definition and the @Column (or equivalent) decorator to each property in the class to create an entity. These annotations provide TypeORM with the information it needs to create the database table and columns.

We can also use the following decorators to establish associations between the entities:

  • OneToOne: This is used to create a one-to-one relationship between two objects.
  • JoinColumn: This specifies which part of the relationship contains the join column.
  • OneToMany: This specifies a one-to-many relationship between objects.
  • ...