Integrating authentication with GraphQL resolvers
Integrating authentication into GraphQL isn't much different from adding any other functionality. In this section, we'll learn how to do that.
Let's now integrate our authentication-related calls. Let's start with the register call:
- You'll recall we already created our
registercall in Chapter 14, Setting Up Postgres and Repository Layer with TypeORM. So now, let's add ourtypeDefsandresolvers. First, add theregistercall from the source code, to thetypeDefsfile in theMutationsection: - Now, in our resolvers file, in the
Mutationsection, add the code from our GitHub source code.This is again just a wrapper of our repository call so there's not much to explain, but notice we do not return a
Userobject; we only return a status message. This is because we want to reduce the chance of any unnecessary information being spilled out. Before we try running it, let's enable our GraphQL...