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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)

Authentication with GraphQL

The basics of authentication should now be clear to you. Our task is now to implement a secure way for users to authenticate. If we have a look at our current database, we are missing the required fields. Let's prepare and add a password and an email field. As we learned in Chapter 3, Connecting to the Database, we create a migration to edit our user table. You can look up the commands in the third chapter if you have forgotten them:

sequelize migration:create --migrations-path src/server/migrations --name add-email-password-to-post

The preceding command generates the new file for us. You can replace the content of it and try writing the migration on your own, or check for the right commands in the following code snippet:

'use strict';

module.exports = {
up: (queryInterface, Sequelize) => {
return Promise.all([
queryInterface...