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GraphQL from Ground Up

Learn GraphQL by building a fully-featured API with Node.js.

Beginner 27+ students Last updated Mar 2020

About the Course

This is a practical course where you'll learn GraphQL by building a fully-featured API for a forum completely from scratch. We'll start with a gentle introduction to GraphQL and look at some of its improvements over REST, then we gradually move on to building a GraphQL API.

This course does not only teach you how to build a real-world GraphQL API from scratch but also some of the best practices from the GraphQL community.

What You'll Learn

  • What's GraphQL and its improvements over REST
  • Understand GraphQL schema and type system
  • Understand GraphQL scalar types
  • Create custom scalar types
  • Understand resolvers
  • Integrate database with GraphQL
  • Understand how GraphQL operations such as query, mutation and subscription works
  • Handle file uploads in GraphQL
  • Authentication and authorization
  • Understand GraphQL directives
  • Create custom directives
  • Pagination
  • Query optimization with Dataloader
  • ... and much more

Course Content

14 sections·45 lessons

PrerequisitesFree
What is GraphQLFree
Installing and setting up SequelizeFree
Creating application modelsFree
Defining models relationshipsFree
Database seedingFree
Creating your first GraphQL serverFree
Intro to GraphQL playgroundFree
Integrating GraphQL server with databaseFree
Object type definitionsFree
Creating a custom DateTime scalar typeFree
Signing upFree
Signing inFree
Fetching the currently authenticated userFree
Fetching all channelsFree
Creating a new threadFree
Fetching a single threadFree
Fetching all threadsFree
Updating a threadFree
Unmarking a reply as best answerFree
Updating a replyFree
Deleting a replyFree
Marking reply as best answerFree
Replying a threadFree
Marking a reply as favoriteFree
Unmarking a reply as favoriteFree
Setting up GraphQL subscriptions on our GraphQL serverFree
Subscribing to new thread replyFree
Subscribing to when a reply is favorited/unfavoritedFree
Subscribing to when a reply is marked/unmarked as best answerFree
Updating user detailsFree
Changing user passwordFree
Uploading user avatarFree
Fetching a single userFree
Locking a threadFree
Unlocking a threadFree
What is a directiveFree
Creating an @auth directiveFree
Creating an @isAdmin directiveFree
Filtering threads by channelsFree
Filtering by solved/unsolved threadsFree
Filtering by own threadsFree
Pagination: offset-basedFree
Pagination: cursor-basedFree
Using dataloaderFree

Your instructor

Chimezie Enyinnaya

Chimezie Enyinnaya

I'm a self-taught full-stack developer and educator. I create practical courses that are straight to the point and easy to understand. The best way to learn is by doing, so my courses equip you with hands-on experience while building real-world applications.

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