GraphQL Students-Courses Server

This is the GraphQL server implementation used in Front End Masters' GraphQL workshop. It contains GraphQL queries and mutations to handle CRUD operations on a courses and students resource. MongoDB is used to persist the data and a connection to mLab is provided.

Getting Started

Clone the repo, install the dependencies, and run the server.

npm i
# for live reload
npm run dev
# for prod
npm start

The app will be served at localhost:8080 and GraphiQL can be accessed at localhost:8080/graphql.

Why Did You Commit Your mLab Credentials?

There is a .env file included with a connection string to an mLab database. Normally the .env file would not be committed and any access to a remote server would be hidden. The database used for this example is a throwaway. For the sake of getting started quickly, it is easier to provide direct access to a working database out of the box.

If you will be publishing work based on this example, be sure to keep any database credentials out of source control.

Why Is There A Data Folder?

Some static data is provided for the getting started examples during the workshop.

Using Your Own mLab Connection

To use your own mLab database, change the connection string value for MLAB_URL in the .env file. Read the mLab docs to get started if you are unfamiliar with it.

License

MIT