Node Express GraphQL Template

An enterprise Express GraphQL template application built using nodejs showcasing - Testing Strategy, DB migrations and seeding, integration with an ORM, containerization using Docker, GraphQL Interface, support for GraphQL relay, integration with graphql-sequelize, support for aggregation queries, PostgreSQL

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Built using Negt CLI

A relay compliant server built using

• Node
• Express
• Postgres
• GraphQL
• Docker

Out of the box support for

• Containerization using Docker
• Multi layered docker image support
• CI pipeline that runs on every pull request
• Simply add in the github secrets and uncomment the cd.yml to deploy to ECS
• GraphQL relay compliant server
• RBAC auth middleware
• Out of the box support to run database migrations and seeders using sequelize
• Multi environment support using the dotenv library
• precommit hooks to run tests
• docker-compose to run the application without installing additional db, and cache infrastructure
• Autogenerate queries and mutations based on GQL models
• Support for circuit breaking has been added using opossum
• Support for sending slack alerts on desired errors has been added using slack-notify
• Support for caching added with redis
• Support for custom mutations has been added along with support for updating only specific fields
• Support for adding a job and queuing it has been added using bull
• GraphQl subscriptions have been added using apollo-server & graphql-redis-subscriptions
• Support for caching of aggregate data added using Redis

Dependencies

graphql-sequelize

Please go through the documentation to understand the control flow.

Relay support has been added by following this documentation

Setup

Setting up database (postgres)

• Requirement postgresql

Steps to set up database with username and role using terminal

• Enter postgres terminal psql postgres
• Create new database CREATE DATABASE reporting_dashboard_dev;
• Create a new role with password CREATE ROLE reporting_dashboard_role WITH LOGIN PASSWORD 'reportingdashboard123';

Setup and run locally using

./scripts/setup-local.sh

Build and run docker container locally

docker-compose down
docker-compose build
docker-compose up

Develop locally

yarn start:local

Start dev server

yarn dev

Start prod server

yarn prod

Build the application

yarn build