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

By : Sebastian Grebe
Book Image

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)

Performance metrics with Apollo Engine

When your application is live and heavily used, you can't check the status of every feature yourself; it would lead to an impossible amount of work. Apollo Engine can tell you how your GraphQL API is performing by collecting statistics with each request that's received. You always have an overview of the general usage of your application, the number of requests it receives, the request latency, the time taken to process each operation, the type, and also each field that is returned. Apollo Server can provide these precise analytics, since each field is represented in a resolver function. The time elapsed to resolve each field is then collected and stored inside Apollo Engine.

At the top of the Metrics page, you have four tabs. The first tab will look as follows:

If your GraphQL API is running for more than a day, you'll receive...