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Hands-on Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React

By : Sebastian Grebe
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Hands-on Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React

By: Sebastian Grebe

Overview of this book

React, one of the most widely used JavaScript frameworks, allows developers to build fast and scalable front end applications for any use case. GraphQL is the modern way of querying an API. It represents an alternative to REST and is the next evolution in web development. Combining these two revolutionary technologies will give you a future-proof and scalable stack you can start building your business around. This book will guide you in implementing applications by using React, Apollo, Node.js and SQL. We'll focus on solving complex problems with GraphQL, such as abstracting multi-table database architectures and handling image uploads. Our client, and server will be powered by Apollo. Finally we will go ahead and build a complete Graphbook. While building the app, we'll cover the tricky parts of connecting React to the back end, and maintaining and synchronizing state. We'll learn all about querying data and authenticating users. We'll write test cases to verify the front end and back end functionality for our application and cover deployment. By the end of the book, you will be proficient in using GraphQL and React for your full-stack development requirements.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Analyzing schemas with Apollo Engine

The Community plan of Apollo Engine offers schema registry and explorer tools. You can find them by clicking on the Explorer tab in the left-hand panel. If your setup has gone well, the page should look as follows:

Let's take a closer look at this screenshot:

  • On the page, you see the last GraphQL schema that you have published. Each schema you publish has a unique version, as long as the schema includes changes.
  • Beneath the version number, you can see your entire GraphQL schema. You can inspect all operations and types. All relations between types and operations are directly linked to each other.
  • You can directly see the number of clients and various usage statistics next to each operation, type, and field.
  • You can search through your GraphQL schema in the top bar and filter the usage statistics in the panel on the right.

You can...