building-apis-in-graphql

Talk and codebase for Building APIs in GraphQL Presentation

Dependencies

Ensure you have the following dependencies:

• Python >= 3.7
• pip >= 19.03
• GraphiQL Client
• SQLite3

Installation

source ~/venv/bin/activate
pip install django==2.1.4 graphene-django==2.2.0 django-filter==2.0.0 django-graphql-jwt==0.1.5
cd /yourproject/graphpod
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver

Migrations

All migrations are already applied however if you edit any of the models.py files then simply tell Django to regenerate the migrations and run the new migrations like so:

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

Slides

The presentation can be found in the slides/ folder

Queries

All queries are stored in graphpod/queries.graphql

Schema

Schema design is stored in graphpod/designedschema.graphql

Logging in as a User

Please refer to the queries.graphql to see how to authenticate. Run the createUser and tokenAuth mutations to get the token of your user. Once you have obtained the token, you will have to alter your headers in the GraphiQL client. As an example, you would set the Authentication header key to JWT eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9...

Database

You can view the database at graphpod/graphpoddb.sqlite3 using a SQLite Database Viewer such as SQLite Browser