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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

Introducing and installing Apollo Client

In this section, we'll introduce you to Apollo Client, which helps you integrate your Angular frontend with your GraphQL API built on top of Apollo Server. Then, we'll see how to install and configure Apollo Client in our Angular project.

Apollo Client is a JavaScript state management library that allows developers to manage local and remote data using GraphQL. It can be used to retrieve, cache, and update application data while also automatically synchronizing data changes with your UI.

Let's install Apollo Client in our Angular project:

  1. Return to your Terminal and execute the following command from your Angular project's root folder:
    ng add apollo-angular

The apollo-angular package will be installed and executed. You will be asked the following question:

Would you like to proceed?

Type Y and press Enter.

  1. Following that, you'll be prompted to enter the URL to your GraphQL endpoint....