Repository files navigation

This is a demo repo to accompany a lightning talk I gave on using these technologies together. This showcases some of the best tools I currently (Spring 2019) know of for interacting with data on a server.

The lightning talk on this subject can be foundhere

Backend

• Prisma - generates a GraphQL API and ORM-style client based on a database graphql schema description
• Nexus - Declarative, Code-First GraphQL Schemas with generated TypeScript to maximize TypeScript benefit with minimal manual typings
• Built on top of someprisma-examples, primarilythis one

API

• GraphQL

Frontend

• Create-React-App (created with thetypescript flag)
• react-apollo-hooks - use the react apollo client tooling withinReact hooks

Tools

• graphql-code-generator for automatically generating TypeScript types based on graphql on the client
• eslint
  • eslint-plugin-graphql for lint client graphql queries against the schema
  • typescript-eslint for linting TypeScript
• prettier

1. Install the correct node version defined in the.nvmrc file

• If you havenvm this can be installed withnvm install

2. Install yarn
3. Runyarn to install global dependencies
4. cd intoserver directory and follow the readme steps there
5. cd into theclient directory and follow the readme steps there