Apollo API Boilerplate

This is a boilerplate for an Apollo GraphQL API server with Sequelize and Express.

1. Features
2. Getting Started

Features

• Apollo - GraphQL - The other other API paradigm
• DataLoader - Batch and deduplicate DB queries / requests
• Sequelize - ORM for (Postgres or MySQL)
• Sequelize CLI - Easily manage and scaffold models, migrations and seeders from the command line
• ESLint - Because consistency is cool
• dotenv - Load your environment variables from .env
• Glob - automatically load models, dataloaders and GraphQL schema types/resolvers

Getting Started

git clone https://github.com/Narkoleptika/apollo-api-boilerplate.git
cd apollo-api-boilerplate
yarn
touch .env

Inside of .env

NODE_ENV=development
PORT=3000

DB_USERNAME=username
DB_PASSWORD=password
DB_DATABASE=database
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_DIALECT=postgres
DB_LOGGING=true

If you're going with Postgres, then you're good, keep going. Otherwise, if you want to use a different database, run yarn remove pg pg-hstore and install whichever one of these packages for the db you want to use.

yarn seq db:create
yarn seq db:migrate
yarn seq db:seed:all
yarn dev

Go to http://localhost:3000/graphql and you should see GraphQL Playground, ready to go.

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Feedback and contributions welcome