janumedia/graphql-firebase-demo

GraphQL + Firebase CRUD example

Simple GraphQL + Firebase Demo

This repo provide an example to integrate GraphQL and Firebase

Depedencies

To simplify this demo is using express-graphql as Node HTTP server. Other depedencies use in this demo is available in package.json file.

To help development process this repo using nodemon to monitor any node change so you will no need to restart the server everytime update the scripts.

Note

To integrate with Firebase this repo using firebase-admin, make sure to read how to generate Firebase Admin Private Key as you will need to generate your own serviceAccountKey.json and save it on the root project directory

Be sure to manage your Firebase database rules to make it work

Example query

Open http://localhost:8080/graphql on your browser and paste the following queries to test:

Query to addAuthor and return the author's id and name:

mutation {
  addAuthor(name: "Stephen Edwin King") {
    id
    name
  }
}

Query to addBook and return the book's id, title and author's name:

mutation {
  addBook(title:"Dreamcatcher", authorid:"888")
  {
    id
    title
    author {
      name
    }
  }
}

Query to get book by ID including author name:

{
  book(id:"888"){
    title
    author{
      name
    }
  }
}

Query to get all authors and their books

{
  authors{
    name
    books {
      title
    }
  }
}