Discussion on "GraphQL for Beginners: Setting Up GraphQL Server"

Victoria Lo · 2021-08-06T15:18:37.323Z

Welcome back to GraphQL for Beginners! A beginner-friendly series introducing the basic concepts of GraphQL and how to connect it to a front-end framework like React using Apollo. In this part, we will start building a GraphQL server for a simple ch...

Hi Victoria. First of all thanks, I love the content. I understand we are implementing this code all in the index js file. However (pardon my ignorance I'm still a newbie) I'm getting the below error message. I'm having a hard time debugging. Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

TypeError: PubSub is not a constructor at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\K-Von\Desktop\projects\github-help\project\server\index.js:4:16)

Hi kfn8dkodemonkey, unfortunately I wasn't able to fix it even after cloning the repo

Hmmm okay K-Von Madison. I am looking into something and if it works I will let you know.

K-Von Madison I resolved the issue installing spefific version package "graphql-yoga": "^1.18.3" the same version of the repo github.com/victoria-lo/devthoughts

Hi Victoria, what are your thoughts on something like TypeGraphQL vs. writing your schema like this using graphql-yoga? Great post btw!

Hi Dhruva Srinivas, thanks for the question. graphql-yoga has been around since the beginning and may soon be replaced with the new Nexus framework. Also, it is a schema-first approach.

I think the future may lie with newer alternatives such as typegraphql 😊 and a code-first approach. Here's an article by Prism regarding the topic.

There is some learning and unlearning to do if you're already used to writing schema-first. So I'll probably write an updated article soon haha!

Victoria Lo Thanks for the response, I've never heard of Nexus, I'll give that a look!

Very informative and beginner friendly series. I am gradually getting a grasp of how GraphQL works, thanks to this series. I am looking forward to the next article

So glad it's helping you Anderson Osayerie! Feel free to ask questions if there's a part you don't quite understand. Can be quite tricky to learn at first! Stay tuned for the next part, my friend :)

Amazing! The subscriptions part is a bit hard but re-reading again and again makes it somewhat understandable.

Indeed Usman, I was thinking how to best explain Subscriptions. I'm glad it's quite understandable for you. I'll see if I can rewrite it to be clearer when I have the chance. Thanks for the awesome feedback! :)

Another excellent article from the series...thank you!

Thanks Tapas! I'm glad u enjoyed it :)

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