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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)

Error tracking with Apollo Engine

We've already looked at how to inspect single operations using Apollo Engine. Under the Clients tab, you will find a separate view that covers all client types and their requests:

In this tab, you can directly see the percentage of errors that happened during each operation. In the currentUser query, there were 37.14% errors out of the total currentUser requests.

If you take a closer look at the left-hand side of the image, you will see that it says Unidentified clients. Since version 2.2.3 of Apollo Server, client awareness is supported. It allows you to identify the client and track how consumers use your API. Apollo automatically extracts an extensions field inside each GraphQL operation, which can hold a name and version. Both fields—Name and Version—are then directly transferred to Apollo Engine. We can filter by these...