Tomek PoniatowiczIn the previous week, we looked into a basic GraphQL Server implementation in TypeScript. In this episode of ...
GraphQL Server in under 5 minutes series
... we will take a look at the full-stack template of React GraphQL app.
The Fullstack React GraphQL Boilerplate repo contains minimal, basic & advanced boilerplates, each allowing to bootstrap a GraphQL server in no time, whether you want to build a simple "Hello world!" or a fully-featured enterprise app.
| Minimal | Basic | Advanced | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scalable GraphQL server: The server uses graphql-yoga which is based on Apollo Server & Express | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Pre-configured Apollo Client: The project comes with a preconfigured setup for Apollo Client | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| GraphQL database: Includes GraphQL database binding to Prisma (running on MySQL) | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Tooling: Out-of-the-box support for GraphQL Playground & query performance tracing | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Extensible: Simple and flexible data model – easy to adjust and extend | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| No configuration overhead: Preconfigured graphql-config setup | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Getting started
The minimal boilerplate is only two commands away. Just go for:
npm install -g graphql-cli
graphql create my-app
Then yarn start or npm run start will start your basic GraphQL server on a localhost:4000. Basic & advanced setup requires a couple more steps.
After installing GraphQL CLI, bootstrap GraphQL server with:
graphql create my-app
when prompted pick the desired boilerplate & deploy the Prisma service to a _public cluster_, then navigate into server directory of your new project and start it:
cd my-app/server
yarn dev
this will run a server on localhost:4000, along with GraphQL Playground; open new terminal tab & navigate back to my-app, then run the app
cd ..
yarn start
Read more about the structure of the project or available commands in the react-fullstack-graphql repo.
