Apollo GraphQL Express Server Template

Technologies

• Apollo GraphQL
• Prisma/PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Dotenv Vault

Prerequisites

• Docker

Getting Started

Environment Variables

New project

• Create a .env file by copying the .env.example

• Create a Sentry project and set the SENTRY_DSN variable

• Create a new dotenv vault

npx dotenv-vault new -y

Existing project

Login to dotenv-vault

npx dotenv-vault login -y

npx dotenv-vault pull

Build container image

yarn docker:build:dev

Run the application stack

docker compose up

Stop application stack

docker compose down

Test

yarn docker:test

CI/CD

Follow the official docker documentation to setup GitHub workflow.

Add your DOTENV_KEY to the github repo secrets

Development

This template supports all graphql-scalars

Google OAuth

Create a Firebase account and get the GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID and GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET from your app's google cloud platform console

Generate test idTokens from google playground

Troubleshoot

App using old env variables

Run npx dotenv-vault build

Docker Unable to connect to database server

Downgrade Dockerfile base to Node 14