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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

Extending Graphbook

Our social network is still a bit rough. Aside from the fact that we are still missing authentication, all of the features are pretty basic; writing and reading the posts and messages is nothing exceptional.

If you compare it to Facebook, there are many things that we need to do. Of course, we cannot rebuild Facebook in its totality, but the usual features should be there. From my point of view, we should cover the following features:

  • Adding a drop-down menu to the posts to allow deletion of posts.
  • Creating a global user object with the React Context API.
  • Using Apollo cache as an alternative to the React Context API.
  • Implementing a top bar as the first component rendered above all of the views. We can search for users in our database from a search bar, and we can show the logged-in user from the global user object.

We will begin by looking at the first feature.

The React context menu

You should be able to write the React context...

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