GraphQL Basics

This repo was made to explore graphQL with node and apollo following along with this udemy course

Check out the production deployment: production playground

Getting Started

prerequisites:

Node v8+ / NPM

Install

Download required dependencies:
- $ npm install -g prisma
- docker ce for appropriate operating system
- docker-engine for appropriate operating system
Configure Heroku (or other host site)
Run $ npm install
Run $ npm run dev
Visit graphql playground to run queries
Connect to frontend

OR

production playground

Run In development (local)

npm run prisma-deploy-dev

Run in development (remote)

Push to production (after initial authentication)

git status

git add .

git commit -m "commit message here"

heroku push main

npm run prisma-deploy-prod

Dependency Notes

graphql-yoga - for running the server
graphql-cli - for running common graphql commands from the command line
prisma - for managing database queries in accordance with schema (ORM+)
Docker - for deployment with heroku
Heroku - hosting the database and server
Nodemon - for server refresh on file change during development
babel[plugins] - for TS/ES7+ etc.
bcrypt - for password hashing
env cmd - for environment path mapping
jest - mock testing framework
jwt - for tokens
uuid - for random id generation