GraphQL Books App

This is a practice project to learn and explore GraphQL. I'm blown away by the flexibility of this tool.

This project is a tutorial project from The Net Ninja's YT Playlist. This is an old tutorial but I think everything was well explained. Few things to mention:

👉 I'm not a full-stack or backend dev. So I just followed the database part and did what he did. Some tools have changed and I read their docs and solved those issues.

👉 The API key or the database endpoint is hidden by using .env file which I .gitignore'd for the safety. I used mLab which is a MongoDB like database. It gives 500MB free space. Setting it up can be cumbersome for a noob frontend dev.

👉 The tutorial's code and packages are a bit dated. I used functional Reactjs and latest version of GraphQL & Apollo Client. So it's not an exact copy of the tutorial and pretty modern.

Used tools

Backend:

• 🚀 Express
• 🚀 GraphQL
• 🚀 Mongoose
• 🚀 mLab

Frontend:

• 🚀 React
• 🚀 GraphQL
• 🚀 Apollo Client

How to Try/ setup

There are two directories, a) client for frontend, b) server, for backend.

👉 Clone this repository

👉 Go to server directory and run the below command

    npm install

👉 Then start the server

    node app

• You can use nodemon instead of the default and run the server hasslefree.
• Make sure you created the db before starting the server.

👉 Go to client directory and run the below command

    npm install

👉 After installing the packages, run the Reactjs server.

    npm start

If you like the project, you can give a ⭐ or even better, give me some feedback. Thanks for your time.