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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

Technical requirements

To complete the steps of this chapter, you are required to have completed Chapter 3, Connecting the Database with TypeORM, of this book.

You need to be familiar with the following technologies:

  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Basics of SQL
  • Basics of GraphQL

You need to have an account with Amazon S3/DigitalOcean Spaces Object Storage or any compatible service.

Amazon provides a free tier that you can use to follow the steps of this chapter, but if you are unable to sign up for an account with them, you can use tools such as MinIO to run a server locally that's compatible with Amazon S3. Check out https://docs.min.io/ for more information.

You can find the source code of this chapter from at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Full-Stack-App-Development-with-Angular-and-GraphQL/tree/main/Chapter04.