Apollo Server

This is the server app that goes with the basic-next-app repo.

It uses MongoDB and is deployed on Heroku.

Started with ApolloServer tutorial.

deployed to https://varioso.herokuapp.com/ See sandbox at https://varioso-668b109fd65d.herokuapp.com/

MongoDB

Log in using yahoo email account. Use the Atlas project named ReadyLab. ReadyLab contains several collections. Currently, I'm playing around in the one called sample_mflix.

Run locally

• npm run dev
• locally, visit http://localhost:4000/

Run in Prod

Push changes:

You can git push heroku but this repo is on github so better to:

• git push
• then git push heroku or else visit heroku and click to deploy the main branch.

To see the graphql explorer, run heroku open

To see logs: heroku logs --tail

To see the app in Next on Vercel: https://basic-next-app-alpha.vercel.app/

To change configs, go to varioso/settings and open "Config Vars"

Heroku gotchas

• Be sure the Procfile points to the correct node command (e.g. if you change files to be in a dist directory, change the Procfile)

Background

To set this up, I started with a tutorial about MongoDB and Graphql, https://reflectoring.io/tutorial-graphql-apollo-server-nodejs-mongodb/

Operations

Search for Students

query ExampleQuery {
  students {
    firstName
    lastName
    id
  }
}

Mutations

mutation MyFirstMutation($firstName: String, $lastName: String, $age: Int) {
  create(firstName: $firstName, lastName: $lastName, age: $age) {
    firstName
    lastName
    age
    id
  }
}