Beginning GraphQL with React, NodeJS and Apollo

In this book, we take you on a fun, hands-on and pragmatic journey to learning GraphQL development. You'll start building your first GraphQL API within minutes. Every chapter is written in a bite-sized manner and straight to the point as I don’t want to waste your time (and most certainly mine) on the content you don't need.

In the course of this book, we cover:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Setting up our Todo App
• Chapter 3: Specifying our Schema
• Chapter 4: GraphQL Queries
• Chapter 5: Using MongoDB as our Database
• Chapter 6: GraphQL Mutations
• Chapter 7: Building our React Frontend
• Chapter 8: How GraphQL Really Shines in Connected Objects

The goal of this book is to teach you GraphQL development in a manageable way without overwhelming you. We focus only on the essentials and cover the material in a hands-on practice manner for you to code along.

Working Through This Book

This book is purposely broken down into short chapters where the development process of each chapter will center on different essential topics. The book takes a practical hands on approach to learning through practice. You learn best when you code along with the examples in the book.

Requirements

No previous knowledge on GraphQL is required, but you should have basic programming knowledge. It will be a helpful advantage if you could read through my React book first which will provide you with better insight and deeper knowledge in React. But even if you have not done so, you should still be able to follow along.