PostGraphile Boilerplate - React & Apollo

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This repository will help you get started with PostGraphile quickly. It's currently a work in progress, but despite this it should be a good jumping-off point.

Goals:

Database:

Basic setup script to setup/reset database (yarn setup)
Basic migrations system with migrate/rollback commands (yarn db:migrate:dev / yarn db:rollback:dev)
Migration templating to support different role names
Dump database after every migration to ensure everyone's running the same

Server:

Client:

General:

JavaScript linting
GraphQL linting
Prettier for code formatting
Ignore relevant files in GitHub PRs (gitattributes linguist-generated=true)
Production-optimised bundle

Deployment:

Procfile for Heroku
Dockerfile or similar

Layout

The project is split into the following folders:

/db - everything related to the database: migrations, unit tests, etc
/data - generated data, such as the GraphQL and database schema dumps
/client - everything related to the web browser: the react components, routes, etc
/server - everything related to running the server: the middlewares, PostGraphile configuration, SSR, integration tests, etc
/tasks - background tasks run by Graphile Worker

We currently use a root-level package.json between all of them. In future we might take a monorepo approach using yarn workspaces, but for now we figured simplicity wins.

Tools

We use the following tools to make our life easier

PostGraphile (obviously) to turn our database into a GraphQL API, and to output the GraphQL schema for other tools
Apollo Client to consume this GraphQL API and manage caching
React for rendering
Webpack to bundle everything up
ESLint for powerful linting and autocorrection
Prettier for consistent code formatting
Express.js to implement our server
db-migrate for performing migrations
graphile-worker for running background tasks

Getting Started

# Install dependencies:
yarn

# Create and configure database
yarn setup

# Start everything
yarn start

Then load http://localhost:5678

{TODO}

Environmental Variables

This package is configured through environmental variables. yarn setup creates a .env file for you which you can then customise.

Conventions

See db/CONVENTIONS.md.

{TODO}

Deploying

{TODO}

Database layout

public - this is where extensions are installed to, it also contains the migrations table. We will typically not add anything to this schema ourselves.
app_public - contains everything to be exposed over GraphQL
app_hidden - same permissions as app_public, but will not be exposed over GraphQL
app_private - database-owner-only storage, for storing things users should never have direct access to, like bcrypt password hashes.

Why the `/data` folder?

ESLint needs an up to date schema dump to correctly validate GraphQL queries.

When developing, you want to ensure that your database is identical to your colleagues - differences in /data/schema.sql indicate that your databases differ.

When performing Code Review, it's important to see the changes to both the database and the GraphQL schemas to ensure no breaking changes are introduced.

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