Chapter 11: Server Dev

Chapter contents:

• Introduction
  • Why build a GraphQL server?
  • What kind of GraphQL server should I build?
• Building
  • Project setup
  • Types and resolvers
  • Authentication
  • Data sources
    • Setting up
    • File structure
    • Creating reviews
  • Custom scalars
  • Creating users
    • Protecting with secret key
    • Setting user context
    • Linking users to reviews
  • Authorization
  • Errors
    • Nullability
    • Union errors
    • formatError
      • Logging errors
      • Masking errors
    • Error checking
    • Custom errors
  • Subscriptions
    • githubStars
    • reviewCreated
• Testing
  • Static testing
  • Review integration tests
  • Code coverage
  • User integration tests
  • Unit tests
  • End-to-end tests
• Production
  • Deployment
    • Options
    • Deploying
    • Environment variables
  • Database hosting
    • MongoDB hosting
    • Redis hosting
      • Redis PubSub
      • Redis caching
  • Querying in production
  • Analytics
  • Error reporting
• More data sources
  • SQL
    • SQL setup
    • SQL data source
    • SQL testing
    • SQL performance
  • REST
  • GraphQL
  • Custom data source
• Extended topics
  • Mocking
  • Pagination
    • Offset-based
    • Cursors
      • after an ID
      • Relay cursor connections
  • File uploads
    • Client-side
    • Server-side
  • Schema validation
  • Apollo federation
  • Hasura
  • Schema design
    • One schema
    • User-centric
    • Easy to understand
    • Easy to use
    • Mutations
      • Arguments
      • Payloads
    • Versioning
  • Custom schema directives
    • @tshirt
    • @upper
    • @auth
  • Subscriptions in depth
    • Server architecture
    • Subscription design
  • Security
    • Auth options
      • Authentication
      • Authorization
    • Denial of service
  • Performance
    • Data fetching
    • Caching
• Future