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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 and adding routes

As previously stated, the Angular CLI automatically configured routing when creating our project, so all we need to do now is specify the routes to the components of our application that we previously created.

Not all components are routable – in other words, they should be mapped to particular paths. For example, the header component will be included in other components to render the header element of the page through its selector, therefore we do not need to include it in our routing module's routes array.

A route is a Route object that holds information about which component maps to which path. A path is a URL element that specifies which view should be navigated to.

A route may have one or more of the following attributes:

  • path: A property that holds the route's path.
  • pathMatch: A property for configuring the matching strategy that the router will use to match the path. It can have a prefix or a full value, with...