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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

Installing the Angular CLI

In this section, we'll learn how to install the Angular CLI, which will allow us to quickly get started with our Angular project without having to deal with the complexity of setting webpack or another build system.

The official utility for creating Angular projects is the Angular CLI. It simplifies the process of creating fully functional Angular projects.

The Angular CLI allows you to do more than just create project files and install dependencies. It also helps you throughout the development process, from serving your application locally through testing and generating final production bundles and deploying them to your chosen hosting provider.

Now, let's begin with the chapter's first practical step. By opening a new command-line interface and entering the following command, you can install the Angular CLI from npm:

npm install -g @angular/cli

At the time this chapter was written, angular/cli version 12 is installed on our...