GraphQL-API

This service is a work in progress Book API built to enable the author to exploit GraphQL.

Getting Started

To setup GraphQL-API, the following should be installed on your machine.

Prerequisites

• Node.js 6 and above
• Postgres Database or create an Online Elephant sql database
• Git
• Docker

If you don't have these already, click on any of them to install it on your local machine.

Installing

If you have all the prerequisites you can use the steps below to setup a local copy.

• Install Prisma

$ npm install -g prisma

• Clone the repository

$ git clone https://github.com/chukwuemekachm/GraphQL-API.git

• Set up Docker & Prisma Now let's navigate into our project directory and create the .env file

touch .env
cp .env.example .env

Update with .env file with the appropriate credentials replacing the placeholders.

Update the prisma.yml file with the port you have chosen for your prima service in this format http://<your-host>:<your-port>.

Next, we will compose our docker container and deploy our prisma service to the container

docker-compose up -d
prisma deploy

You should see a message something similar to this, depending on your env variables

Your Prisma GraphQL database endpoint is live:

  HTTP:  http://<your-host>:<your-port>
  WS:    ws://<your-host>:<your-port>


post-deploy:
Generating schema... 44ms

Update your .env file with the Prisma API endpoint Now run this to start your server

$ npm run dev

Built With

• graphql-yoga
• prisma
• graphql-shield
• class-validator
• prettier

Author

• Chima Chukwuemeka @chukwuemekachm

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details