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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

Summary

Throughout this chapter, we've seen how to use Apollo Client to send queries and mutations to our previously implemented backend API. We integrated Apollo with our Angular frontend, then implemented the required services and components for user authentication.

We have also added functionality to our application header to allow users to navigate between pages, such as the profile, home feed, and login pages. We used conditional rendering to display just the necessary buttons based on the user's authentication state. We added the necessary functionality to allow users to search for other users on the network using a search bar in the header. The results are then displayed in a dialog component that includes pagination and close buttons.

In the next chapter, we'll continue improving our authentication system and add unit testing to ensure our code works as expected.