2021 08 08

back on the GQL / apollo training. Having a second look at setting up the backend from scratch. referening my old learning journal which was kinda meta.

This guide is still the best and most comprehensive i’ve come across so far which is specific to node, ts, apollo and prisma.

Funneling the prisma types into codegen, means you get all of prismas auto-generated types along with the types of your graphql scheama when writing your resolvers. It’s really elegant.

Learning how to use .graphql directly in a node project. stack overflow to the rescue

• Looks like the way we do it a work is with @graphql-tools/load' which is also what stack-overflow recommends.
• this works nicely for my basic use case

import { loadSchemaSync } from "@graphql-tools/load";
import { GraphQLFileLoader } from "@graphql-tools/graphql-file-loader";

export const schema = loadSchemaSync("./src/schema/*.graphql", {
  loaders: [new GraphQLFileLoader()],
});

so many different flavours of apollo-server!

• When starting out, just stick with apollo-server. if you need to server other endpoints on the same node server, swap to apollo-server-express there are also many other supported node backend including serverless!

Moving on to the front end of the tutorial

I am only just realising now you get GQL auto completion within the vscode if you have the apollo GraphQL client extension installed