This project was done as a follow-along project using this GraphQL tutorial. It uses the following stack:
- React
- Apollo
- Node (Express)
- GraphQL
- MongoDB
At the time the tutorial was made, React hooks did not exist. I refactored the project to utilize React hooks for creating functional components and using @apollo/apollo-hooks. I also realize that using subscriptions would be better than refetching the query after a mutation, but with the particular libraries and packages used in the tutorial, it did not seem feasible.
I have not deployed this repo to production. If you wish to use this repo for yourself, you will have to make any necessary changes to deploy the server and client.
There are two directories for this project: client and server. To get this project up and running, you could deploy the server directory with something like Heroku and then edit the ApolloClient uri in /client/src/App.js to the corresponding uri from your deployed server. You will also need to set up your own MongoDB database. For this project, I used MongoDB.Atlas (formerly known as MLab). You will have to set up a new cluster and follow the instructions for connecting it to your project. My MongoDB connection was placed in a .env file and is therefore excluded from this repo's files on GitHub. However you choose to do yours, make sure that your connection gets passed as an argument into the mongo.connect function in /server.app.js.