GraphQL Express Boilerplate

Boilerplate for building GraphQL API endpoints with ExpressJS and Apollo GraphQL.

Features

• Writing ES6, ES7 using Babel
• Minimum ExpressJS configuration
• Passport authentication and local strategy
• Loading .env file
• GraphQL API endpoints with context object
• mocha testing framework
• chai and chai-http as BDD/TDD assertion

Prerequisites

• Node: >= v6
• npm or yarn
• Redis

Pre-install

• Copy .env content

cp .env-sample .env

• Edit .env content
  • REDIS_CONNECTION_STRING: Configures Redis server for session store
  • HOST and POST: The host and port of server to listening
  • CORS-ORIGIN: List of available origins to put in whitelist, separated by commas
  • Session configs include SESSION_NAME and SESSION_SECRET.

Install

yarn
yarn build
yarn start

or

npm install
npm run build
npm start

License

The MIT License

Copyright © 2017 Nhan Hoang