React Apollo GraphQL [from scratch]

Today you have basically two ways how to start new React application: NextJs or Create React App.

However, there is no fun in using other peoples frameworks so I created this application from scratch. If you ever wondered how to set up your own boilerplate. This is a good place to start.

Demo

You can try the application here (it might take a while before the free server wakes up)

📘 Backend API is running here. You can find the source code of the backend application here.

Development

System Dependencies:

1. brew install node
2. brew install yarn

Run development server:

1. yarn install
2. yarn apollo:generate-types:watch
3. yarn watch

Useful Commands

• yarn lint:ts lint TS files
• yarn lint:css lint CSS
• yarn lint:circular-dependencies detect circular dependencies
• yarn apollo:generate-types generate TS definitions from GraphQL schema
• yarn apollo:remove-all-types remove all automatically generated TS definitions
• yarn test run jest
• docker-compose up run the application in Docker 🐳 container

TODO

• Optimize antd package with babel-plugin-import
• Create custom vendors config with DllPlugin
• Implement request password reset + request password change
• Implement automatic token refresh

Production

Keep in mind that main and vendors packages are huge. I plan to implement babel-plugin-import and DllPlugin in the future.

1. SERVER_URL=https://node-type-orm-graphql.herokuapp.com/graphql yarn build
2. yarn prod