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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

Debugging Angular applications

Angular by default runs in development mode, which has debugging enabled and provides developers with the enableProdMode() method to enable the production mode. This also disables debugging and removes any debugging information from the final production bundles.

With the new Ivy renderer, we also have a set of APIs on the global ng object that you can use to invoke methods, update state, and access components right from your browser's console when your Angular application is running. Check out https://angular.io/api/core/global for more information.

After running your Angular application, open your browser's console; you should be able to see the Angular is running in development mode. Call enableProdMode() to enable production mode message:

Figure 6.2 – Angular is running in development mode message in the console

This simply tells you that your application is in development mode and has debugging...