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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

Understanding the application architecture

Throughout this book, we'll be developing a full stack web application with the functionality of a small social network. We already discussed the architecture of the backend application, which utilizes Node.js, Apollo Server, and GraphQL. Now, we're going to create the frontend of our application using Angular and Apollo Client to consume the server's GraphQL API.

Angular is a Google-developed platform for creating client-side web apps for mobile and desktop using TypeScript. We'll use it to consume the server's GraphQL API and build the application's user interface. Additionally, we'll utilize Angular Material to style the UI.

TypeScript is a Microsoft-created superset of JavaScript that adds static typing, improved error checking, type safety, and object-oriented programming principles to the language before it is compiled to JavaScript and processed in web browsers. Additionally, it integrates more...