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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)

Many-to-many relationships

Facebook provides users with various ways to interact. Currently, we only have the opportunity to request and insert posts. As in the case of Facebook, we want to have chats with our friends and colleagues. We will introduce two new entities to cover this.

The first entity is called Chat, and the second is called Message.

Before starting with the implementation, we need to lay out a detailed plan of what those entities will enable us to do.

A user can have multiple chats, and a chat can belong to multiple users. This relationship gives us the opportunity to have group chats with multiple users, as well as private chats, between only two users. A message belongs to one user, but every message also belongs to one chat.

Model and migrations

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