README.md

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The purpose of this project is to demo how common features required by web apps can be implemented with GraphQL. This includes:

1. Querying data
2. Mutating / modifying data.
3. Paginating through data.
4. Authentication.
5. File uploads.
6. Realtime updates.

This project uses:

1. Apollo server for the backend.
2. Apollo react for the client.

It also uses React hooks and GraphQL hooks in the client since hooks is what React projects will eventually move towards.

• The blog demonstrates how queries, mutations and pagination wih queries is done.
• The login page of course demonstrates how token authentication. Since this a demo it stores the AUTH cookie in local storage however you could also have it stored as a cookie via HTTP headers with the 'Secure' and 'HttpOnly' directives set.
• The chat page demonstrates the use of subscriptions. Note when you refresh the chat page you loose your chat history since it isn't saved in a database. It works like live chat. You see only what you’ve typed since you started the chat.
• The file upload page demonstrates how file uploads can be handled with GraphQL. For this feature too the backend does not store data but does return a response.

Setup:

1. Clone to disk.
2. Run 'npm i && npm start' to install and fire up both client and server from their respective folders.