Building GraphQL Applications in Laravel

🚀 Overview

GraphQL is a query language for APIs that enables application-to-application communication and provides a complete and understandable description of the data in your API, making it easier to evolve APIs over time. GraphQL lets you ask for what you want in a single query by enabling clients to request their own unique data specifications, saves bandwidth, and reduces waterfall requests. In this course, Rasheeda Yehuza shows you how to set up a GraphQL in Laravel (PHP) using Lighthouse to query data.

Learning objectives

• Discover the benefits of GraphQL and learn why you might use it over REST.
• Review GraphQL use cases so you can better determine when to use GraphQL as your application interface.
• Learn about the most basic components of a GraphQL schema, including object types and fields, which provide a good grounding for all the other types in GraphQL.
• Review the most common object types of a GraphQL schema, including query and mutation types.
• Learn how to set up and bootstrap a new Laravel application.
• Discover how to connect to a database server, seed the built-in user tables, and connect the new Laravel application to access the database and tables.
• Learn how to set up and configure Lighthouse in a new Laravel application.
• Define queries in a GraphQL service and query a GraphQL application using an existing user database.
• Discover how to query a GraphQL API with arguments on an existing user's table and define the exact shape of data needed for specific arguments.
• Review how to use GraphQL mutations to create, update, and delete models using Lighthouse.

📸 Introduction to Graphal

🛠 Installation

1. Clone the Repository:

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/your-repository.git

2. Navigate to the Project Directory:

   cd your-repository

3. Install Dependencies:

   composer install
   npm install

4. Set Up Environment File:

   Copy .env.example to .env and configure your database and other environment variables.

   cp .env.example .env

5. Generate Application Key:

   php artisan key:generate

6. Run Migrations:

   php artisan migrate

7. Start the Development Server:

   php artisan serve