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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 chapter, we learned how to use TypeORM to connect a MySQL database to our application, as well as how to implement some resolvers to get and remove data from the database. This enabled us to write a functional GraphQL API with resolvers that get data from a real MySQL database.

We used TypeORM to abstract database operations, which allows you to utilize any chosen database management system for your application without changing the code.

We looked at how to generate and populate our database tables with initial data before integrating TypeORM with Apollo.

This chapter is now complete! In the following chapter, we'll continue building our backend application with Apollo Server and Node.js to implement authentication and image uploading.