The newline Guide to Building Your First GraphQL Server with Node and TypeScript

Getting Started With Our Node Server

12 Lessons1 Hours 21 Minutes

• 01Module 1 Introduction

  Sneak Peek00:01:03

  This is an introduction to the work we'll be doing in Module 1.0.

• 02What is Node.js? A Beginner's Guide.

  Sneak Peek00:05:05

  Node is a JavaScript runtime environment that can run on different platforms (Mac, Windows, Linux, etc.). It was first introduced in 2009 by Ryan Dahl, as a response to how slow web servers were at the time. In this lesson, we'll introduce Node and talk about the capability Node provides to make I/O tasks asynchronous and non-blocking.

• 03How to Run a JavaScript File with Node.js

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  In this lesson, we'll use Node to run a simple JavaScript file on the server.

• 04How to Create a Minimal Express Node.js Server

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  Web servers provide functionality for requests that can be made from client applications. Node has a built-in HTTP module that provides the capability to create a server. With this lesson, we'll look to use the popular Express framework as the replacement of the core HTTP module to create a minimal Node server, with Express routing.

• 05How to Automatically Reload a Node.js Server with Nodemon

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  Nodemon is an open-source utility tool that helps automatically restart a Node server whenever a change in code is detected in development. In this lesson, we'll install Nodemon and introduce an application script that will start the Node server with Nodemon.

• 06What is TypeScript? A Beginner's Guide

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  JavaScript is considered a weakly typed language. In this lesson, we'll go through a simple example of why that can be an issue in development and where TypeScript falls in the picture.

• 07How to Set up a Node.js Server with TypeScript

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  We'll get started with TypeScript in this lesson by installing a few necessary packages in our server and setting up the configuration of our TypeScript compiler.

• 08How to Compile a TypeScript Node.js Project

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  TypeScript is a development tool geared towards making building JavaScript applications more robust. In an application's deployed state (browser or server), TypeScript must be compiled to valid JavaScript. In this lesson, we'll see how the TypeScript compiler provides us with a command to compile and produce JavaScript code from TypeScript.

• 09How to use ESLint to Check TypeScript Code for Issues

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  Though VSCode includes TypeScript language support which helps us pick up TypeScript errors in our TypeScript code, we'll introduce more robust code checking with ESLint - a popular open-source JavaScript/TypeScript linting tool.

• 10Build Example Mock Data to Test a GraphQL Server

  Sneak Peek00:07:03

  To help us get started, we'll begin by introducing a mock data array of rental listings in this lesson. This will help us get started before we begin to address more appropriate data persistence.

• 11How to Build an Express API with GET and POST Routes

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  In this lesson, we'll use the routing capabilities Express gives us to create GET and POST routes that interact with the mock data listings array we've established.

• 12Module 1 Summary

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  This lesson is a summary of the work we've done in Module 1.0 where we built a very simple Node/Express/Typescript project.