GraphQL API for little reddit clone

Main Goals for the project:

• Write Resolvers and Entities on my own, instead of using a GraphQL-Service like Hasura.
• Use the code-first/active-record approach. (TypeORM, type-graphql).
• Stay flexible how to comminicate with PostgreSQL, using raw SQL or typeORM-queryBuilder.
• Write authentication on my own.
• Use redis for sessions.
• Sync all resolvers and entity types with the frontend app.
• Set up a password reset mailer (nodemailer)

Stack i used:

• Typescript
• TypeORM
• type-graphql
• redis
• express
• apollo-server-express

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💡 Addional notes are in the docs folder

How to start this server:

1. check versions: postgreSQL: 13 node: 15.6 (needed for npm 7.0) npm: 7.4.0 (because of newest npm peer dependencies feature)

2. configure postgreSQL (optional): Need to config your postgreSQL for the fist time ? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1471571/how-to-configure-postgresql-for-the-first-time

3. create a new postreSQL DB and edit database URL in .env

4. Start redis server for user session(version 6.no config needed) Just use the standard redis port 127.0.0.1:6379 Start up a redis server with: redis-server

5. run little-reddit-server cd little-reddit-server npm run dev

6. run little-reddit-web cd little-reddit-web npm run dev