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Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React

Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React

By : Grebe
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Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React

Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React

3.9 (8)
By: Grebe

Overview of this book

React and GraphQL, when combined, provide you with a very dynamic, efficient, and stable tech stack to build web-based applications. GraphQL is a modern solution for querying an API that represents an alternative to REST and is the next evolution in web development. This book guides you in creating a full-stack web application from scratch using modern web technologies such as Apollo, Express.js, Node.js, and React. First, you’ll start by configuring and setting up your development environment. Next, the book demonstrates how to solve complex problems with GraphQL, such as abstracting multi-table database architectures and handling image uploads using Sequelize. You’ll then build a complete Graphbook from scratch. While doing so, you’ll cover the tricky parts of connecting React to the backend, and maintaining and synchronizing state. In addition to this, you’ll also learn how to write Reusable React components and use React Hooks. Later chapters will guide you through querying data and authenticating users in order to enable user privacy. Finally, you’ll explore how to deploy your application on AWS and ensure continuous deployment using Docker and CircleCI. By the end of this web development book, you'll have learned how to build and deploy scalable full-stack applications with ease using React and GraphQL.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Building the Stack
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Section 2: Building the Application
14
Section 3: Preparing for Deployment

Preparing the final production build

We have come a long way to get here. Now is the time when we should look at how we currently run our application and how we should prepare it for a production environment.

Currently, we use our application in a development environment while working on it. It is not highly optimized for performance or low-bandwidth usage. We include developer functionalities with the code so that we can debug it properly.

For use in a real production environment, we should only include what is necessary for the user. When setting the NODE_ENV variable to production, we remove most of the unnecessary development mechanics.

By bundling our server-side code, we will get rid of unnecessary loading times and will improve the performance. To bundle our backend code, we are going to set up a new webpack configuration file. Follow these instructions:

  1. Install the following two dependencies:
    npm install --save-dev webpack-node-externals @babel/plugin-transform...
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