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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

Technical requirements

To successfully complete this chapter's steps, you must first work through the previous chapter of this book.

You can optionally install the following:

  • Angular DevTools
  • DevTools for Apollo Client
  • Visual Studio Code

If you're using Visual Studio Code, it is strongly advised to install the GraphQL for Visual Studio Code extension with the ext install GraphQL.vscode-graphql command. You can also use the ext install capaj.graphql-codegen-vscode command to integrate Codegen with Visual Studio Code and have it run every time your query/mutation is saved.

You should also be acquainted with the following technologies:

This chapter's source code can be found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Full-Stack...