Why is GraphQL the most innovative technology for fetching data since Ajax? By providing a query language for your APIs and a runtime for fulfilling queries with your data, GraphQL presents a clear alternative to REST and ad hoc web service architectures. With this practical guide, Alex Banks and Eve Porcello deliver a clear learning path for frontend web developers, backend engineers, and project and product managers looking to get started with GraphQL.Youâ??ll explore graph theory, the graph data structure, and GraphQL types before learning hands-on how to build a schema for a photo-sharing application. This book also introduces you to Apollo Client, a popular framework you can use to connect GraphQL to your user interface. Explore graph theory and review popular graph examples in use today Learn how GraphQL applies database querying methods to the internet Create a schema for a PhotoShare application that serves as a roadmap and a contract between the frontend and backend teams Use JavaScript to build a fully functioning GraphQL service and Apollo to implement a client Learn how to prepare GraphQL APIs and clients for production

Cloud computing is typically associated with backend development and DevOps. But with the rise of serverless technologies and a new generation of services and frameworks, frontend and mobile developers can build robust applications with production-ready features such as authentication and authorization, API gateways, chatbots, augmented reality scenes, and more. This hands-on guide shows you how.Nader Dabit, developer advocate at Amazon Web Services, guides you through the process of building full stack applications using React, AWS, GraphQL, and AWS Amplify. You’ll learn how to create and incorporate services into your client applications while learning general best practices, deployment strategies, rich media management, and continuous integration and delivery along the way. Learn how to build serverless applications that solve real problems Understand what is (and isn’t) possible when using these technologies Create a GraphQL API that interacts with DynamoDB and a NoSQL database Examine how authentication works―and learn the difference between authentication and authorization Get an in-depth view of how serverless functions work and why they’re important Build full stack applications on AWS and create offline apps with Amplify DataStore

Unleash the power of GraphQL, React 17, Node, and Express to build a scalable and production-ready application from scratch to be deployed on AWSKey Features: Build full-stack applications with modern APIs using GraphQL and React Hooks Integrate Apollo into React and build frontend components using GraphQL Implement a self-updating notification pop-up with a unique GraphQL feature called SubscriptionsBook Description:React and GraphQL, when combined, provide you with a very dynamic, efficient, and stable tech stack to build web-based applications. GraphQL is a modern solution for querying an API that represents an alternative to REST and is the next evolution in web development.This book guides you in creating a full-stack web application from scratch using modern web technologies such as Apollo, Express.js, Node.js, and React. First, you'll start by configuring and setting up your development environment. Next, the book demonstrates how to solve complex problems with GraphQL, such as abstracting multi-table database architectures and handling image uploads using Sequelize. You'll then build a complete Graphbook from scratch. While doing so, you'll cover the tricky parts of connecting React to the backend, and maintaining and synchronizing state. In addition to this, you'll also learn how to write Reusable React components and use React Hooks. Later chapters will guide you through querying data and authenticating users in order to enable user privacy. Finally, you'll explore how to deploy your application on AWS and ensure continuous deployment using Docker and CircleCI.By the end of this web development book, you'll have learned how to build and deploy scalable full-stack applications with ease using React and GraphQL.What You Will Learn: Build a GraphQL API by implementing models and schemas with Apollo and Sequelize Set up an Apollo Client and build frontend components using React Write Reusable React components and use React Hooks Authenticate and query user data using GraphQL Use Mocha to write test cases for your full-stack application Deploy your application to AWS using Docker and CircleCIWho this book is for:This React GraphQL book is for web developers familiar with React and GraphQL who want to enhance their skills and build full-stack applications using industry standards like React, Apollo, Node.js, and SQL at scale while learning to solve complex problems with GraphQL.

This book gets you a running start with serverless GraphQL APIs on Amazon's AWS AppSync. GraphQL is now a viable option for modern API design. And since Facebook, Yelp, and Shopify have built successful APIs with GraphQL, many companies consider following in the technological footsteps of these tech giants. Using GraphQL is great, but by itself, it is only half the rent: It requires the manual installation and maintenance of software infrastructure components.AppSync is a cloud-based platform for GraphQL APIs. It is serverless, so you waste no time setting up infrastructure. It scales up and down dynamically depending on the load. It supports your app developers with an SDK for synchronization and offline support. You pay only what you use, so no upfront investment is needed and it may save your organizations thousands of dollars in IT costs.Whether you are new to GraphQL, or you are an experienced GraphQL developer, this book will provide you with the knowledge needed to get started with AWS AppSync. After quickly covering the GraphQL foundations, you will dive into the practice of developing APIs with AWS AppSync with in-depth walkthroughs, screenshots, and code samples. The book guides you through the step-by-step process of creating a GraphQL schema, developing GraphQL APIs, connecting data sources, developing resolvers with AppSync templates, securing your API, offering real-time data, developing offline support and synchronization for your apps and much more.

Build hyper-fast and hyper-efficient web applications with GraphQL! This practical, comprehensive guide introduces the powerful GRANDStack for developing full stack web applications based in graph data structures.In Full Stack GraphQL Applications you will learn how to:Build backend functionalities for GraphQL applicationsModel a GraphQL API with GraphQL type definitionsUtilize Neo4j as a backend databaseHandle authentication and authorization with GraphQLImplement pagination and rate limiting in a GraphQL APIDevelop a GraphQL service with Apollo ServerInstall Neo4j Database on different platformsCreate a basic frontend application using React and Apollo ClientDeploy a full stack GraphQL application to the cloudThe GraphQL query language radically reduces over-fetching or under-fetching of data by constructing precise graph-based data requests. In Full Stack GraphQL Applications you’ll learn how to build graph-aware web applications that take full advantage of GraphQL’s amazing efficiency. Neo4j’s William Lyon teaches you everything you need to know to design, deploy, and maintain a GraphQL API from scratch. He reveals how you can build your web apps with GraphQL, React, Apollo, and Neo4j Database, aka “the GRANDstack,” to get maximum performance out of GraphQL.Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.About the technologyThe GraphQL API query language radically streamlines data exchanges with backend servers by representing application data as easy-to-understand graphs. You can amplify GraphQL’s benefits by using graph-aware tools and data stores, like React, Apollo, and Neo4j, throughout your application. A full stack graph approach provides a consistent data model end to end, reducing friction in data fetching and increasing developer productivity.About the bookFull Stack GraphQL Applications teaches you to build graph-aware web applications using GraphQL, React, Apollo, and the Neo4j database, collectively called “the GRANDstack.” Practical, hands-on examples quickly develop your understanding of how the GRANDstack fits together. As you go, you’ll create and deploy to the cloud a full-featured web application that includes search, authentication, and more. Soon, you’ll be ready to deploy end-to-end applications that take full advantage of GraphQL’s outstanding performance.What's insideBuilding a GraphQL backend using Neo4jAuthentication and authorization with GraphQLPagination and GraphQL abstract typesA basic frontend application using React and Apollo ClientDeploying to the cloud with Netlify, AWS Lambda, Auth0, and Neo4j AuraAbout the readerFor full stack web developers. No experience with GraphQL or graph databases required.About the authorWilliam Lyon is a Staff Developer Advocate at Neo4j and blogger at lyonwj.com.Table of ContentsPART 1 GETTING STARTED WITH FULL STACK GRAPHQL1 What is full stack GraphQL?2 Graph thinking with GraphQL3 Graphs in the database4 The Neo4j GraphQL LibraryPART 2 BUILDING THE FRONTEND5 Building user interfaces with React6 Client-side GraphQL with React and Apollo ClientPART 3 FULL STACK CONSIDERATIONS7 Adding authorization and authentication8 Deploying our full stack GraphQL application9 Advanced GraphQL considerations

The Road to GraphQL is your personal journey to master pragmatic GraphQL in JavaScript. The book is full with applications you are going to build along the way with React.js and Node.js. Afterward, you will be able to implement full-stack JavaScript applications.I wrote the The Road to GraphQL over the last year, while building several GraphQL applications for my clients and for myself. During this time, I came to understand the practical genius of GraphQL, and how it dramatically improves communication in client-server architectures. Not only does it improve the interface between the client and the server, it also enhances client-side state management by eliminating remote data management. Sophisticated GraphQL libraries like Apollo Client provide powerful features like caching, optimistic UI, and data prefetching for free. This book covers the fundamentals of GraphQL itself, as well as its ecosystem. I applied the same principles as my other books: Stay pragmatic Keep it simple Answer the why, not just the how Experience a problem, solve a problemThis book is not intended to be an end-all reference for GraphQL APIs, nor an in-depth guide about the internals of the GraphQL specification. Instead, its purpose is to journey through learning GraphQL with JavaScript the pragmatic way, building client and server applications yourself. The book covers lots of facets about GraphQL in JavaScript that are important for building modern applications, without just throwing the libraries like Apollo at problems before experiencing them. It starts with the basic HTTP requests to perform GraphQL queries first, then moves on to using dedicated GraphQL libraries for it. You will even get the chance to implement your own GraphQL client library, so you understand how these libraries work under the hood. There are no hidden abstractions in this book, just plenty of fundamentals for JavaScript, React.js, Node.js, and GraphQL.RequirementsTo get the most out of this book, you should be familiar with the basics of web development, which includes some knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. You will also need to be familiar with the term API, because they are discussed frequently. I encourage you to join the official Slack Group for the book, help or get help from others.ReactOn the client-side, this book uses React to teach about GraphQL in JavaScript. My other book called The Road to learn React teaches you all the fundamentals about React. It also teaches you to make the transition from JavaScript ES5 to JavaScript ES6. The book is available for free and after having read the Road to learn React, you should possess all the knowledge to implement the GraphQL client-side application with this book.NodeOn the server-side, this book uses Node with Express as library to teach about GraphQL in JavaScript. You don't need to know much about those technologies before using them for your first GraphQL powered applications. The book will guide you through the process of setting up a Node application with Express and shows you how to weave GraphQL into the mix. Afterward, you should be able to consume the GraphQL API provided by your server-side application in your client-side application.

Practical and example-driven, GraphQL in Action gives you the tools to get comfortable with the GraphQL language, build and optimize a data API service, and use it in a front-end client application. By working through set up, security, and error handling, you'll lean to create a complete GraphQL server. You'll also unlock easy ways to incorporate GraphQL into your existing codebase so you can offer simple, efficient, and scalable data APIs.Reduce bandwidth demands on your APIs by getting only the results you need--all in a single request! The GraphQL query language simplifies interactions with web servers, enabling smarter API queries that can hugely improve the efficiency of data requests. In GraphQL in Action, you'll learn how to bring those benefits to your own APIs, giving your clients the power to ask for exactly what they need from your server, no more, no less.GraphQL In Action teaches everything you need to get started with GraphQL--from design principles and syntax right through to performance optimization. When you're done, you'll have all the skills you need to get started writing and using scalable data APIs with GraphQLPurchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

Written by hackers for hackers, this hands-on book teaches penetration testers how to identify vulnerabilities in apps that use GraphQL, a data query and manipulation language for APIs adopted by major companies like Facebook and GitHub.Black Hat GraphQL is for anyone interested in learning how to break and protect GraphQL APIs with the aid of offensive security testing. Whether you’re a penetration tester, security analyst, or software engineer, you’ll learn how to attack GraphQL APIs, develop hardening procedures, build automated security testing into your development pipeline, and validate controls, all with no prior exposure to GraphQL required.Following an introduction to core concepts, you’ll build your lab, explore the difference between GraphQL and REST APIs, run your first query, and learn how to create custom queries.You’ll also learn how to:Use data collection and target mapping to learn about targets Defend APIs against denial-of-service attacks and exploit insecure configurations in GraphQL servers to gather information on hardened targets Impersonate users and take admin-level actions on a remote server Uncover injection-based vulnerabilities in servers, databases, and client browsers Exploit cross-site and server-side request forgery vulnerabilities, as well as cross-site WebSocket hijacking, to force a server to request sensitive information on your behalf Dissect vulnerability disclosure reports and review exploit code to reveal how vulnerabilities have impacted large companiesThis comprehensive resource provides everything you need to defend GraphQL APIs and build secure applications. Think of it as your umbrella in a lightning storm.