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Full Stack Development with Angular and GraphQL

By : Ahmed Bouchefra
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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

Summary

Over the course of this chapter, we have learned about how to use the Angular CLI to generate a brand-new Angular application based on the latest version of the framework. We also looked at many essential concepts of Angular, such as modules, components, and services, and how to use the Angular CLI to generate those artifacts that provide the structure of our application.

After covering those topics and generating the basic structure of our application, we then discussed the basic concepts of routing in Angular, including the routing module, routes, and navigation directives such as routerLink that replace the regular href attribute in HTML.

Next, we looked at some tips on how to debug our application, using the debugging methods available by default in development mode, and why it's necessary to enable production mode when you are ready to deploy your application for production.

Finally, we added Angular Material to our project to provide Material Design components...