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The newline Guide to Building Your First GraphQL Server with Node and TypeScript
In this course, we'll show you how to create your first GraphQL server with Node.js and TypeScript
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Introduction:

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Module 1: Introduction

Lesson 1:

Course Introduction

Lesson 2:

What You'll Learn in This Course

Lesson 3:

Golang Useful Resources and Tools

Lesson 4:

The authors

Lesson 5:

The history of Go

Lesson 6:

Installing Go

Lesson 7:

Golang: An Overview of Fundamental Concepts

Module 2: A key-value server

Lesson 1:

A Quick Primer on Key-Value Servers and Hash Tables

Lesson 2:

How to Create a Basic hello world Webserver with Go

Lesson 3:

Build a Basic hello world JSON API Server with Go + Chi

Lesson 4:

How to Create an In-Memory Hash Table API with Go + Chi

Lesson 5:

Conclusion

Module 3: Testing a key-value server

Lesson 1:

Testing a key-value server

Lesson 2:

What is End-to-End Testing, Integration Testing, and Unit Testing?

Lesson 3:

Writing Unit Tests for JSON Functions in Go

Lesson 4:

Parallel Testing in Golang: How to Use t.Parallel()

Lesson 5:

A Brief Overview of Golang Benchmarks

Lesson 6:

Integration testing

Lesson 7:

Further testing types

Module 4: Distributed Key Value Server

Lesson 1:

Distributed key-value server

Lesson 2:

What is Distributed Consensus and How Does it Work?

Lesson 3:

An Introduction to Using Raft for Distributed Consensus

Lesson 4:

Create a Distributed Webserver using Golang and Raft

Lesson 5:

Connecting Golang Servers With a Handler and Middleware

Lesson 6:

Building a Store Package to Sync Data in Go with Raft's FSM

Lesson 7:

Testing Distributed Golang Webservers in Docker Containers

Module 5: Monitoring

Lesson 1:

Monitoring

Lesson 2:

White Box Monitoring vs Black Box Monitoring

Lesson 3:

A Introduction to Golang Logging

Lesson 4:

Defining and Implementing Distributed System Tracing with Go

Lesson 5:

Alerting

Lesson 6:

Further reading

Module 6: A canary deployment server