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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 services and dependency injection

A service in Angular is a singleton that may be provided to other components or services using dependency injection, which is a way to supply dependencies to an object.

Don't be misled by this terminology! This simply means that an Angular entity called the injector is in charge of creating an instance of the service and delivering it to the components that request it.

Dependency injection is tightly linked with the Angular framework and is used to inject services and other objects into components, allowing access to the service functionality without having to manually create an instance.

Angular services enable you to create apps that adhere to the following guidelines:

  • Isolation of your application's business logic from its display logic in components
  • Interchange of data between components in your application
  • Reusability of code

This means that you should leverage services to organize and reuse...