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How to Compile a TypeScript Node.js ProjectThe newline Guide to Building Your First GraphQL Server with Node and TypeScriptTypeScript 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.
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How to Set up a Node.js Server with TypeScriptThe newline Guide to Building Your First GraphQL Server with Node and TypeScriptWe'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.
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What is TypeScript? A Beginner's GuideThe newline Guide to Building Your First GraphQL Server with Node and TypeScriptJavaScript 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.
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How to Automatically Reload a Node.js Server with NodemonThe newline Guide to Building Your First GraphQL Server with Node and TypeScriptNodemon 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.
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How to Create a Minimal Express Node.js ServerThe newline Guide to Building Your First GraphQL Server with Node and TypeScriptWeb 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.
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How to Run a JavaScript File with Node.jsThe newline Guide to Building Your First GraphQL Server with Node and TypeScriptIn this lesson, we'll use Node to run a simple JavaScript file on the server.
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What is Node.js? A Beginner's Guide.The newline Guide to Building Your First GraphQL Server with Node and TypeScriptNode 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.
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A Node, TypeScript, and GraphQL Developer EnvironmentThe newline Guide to Building Your First GraphQL Server with Node and TypeScriptQuick walkthrough of the development environment and tools used in the course.
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Welcome, Getting StartedThe newline Guide to Building Your First GraphQL Server with Node and TypeScriptIntroduction to the Newline guide to building your first GraphQL server with Node and TypeScript.
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How to Add a README.md File to ReactBuild a Spotify Connected AppAdd a descriptive and helpful README to our project
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How to Deploy React to Heroku With a Node.js ServerBuild a Spotify Connected AppDeploy our app to the internet with Heroku
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How to Change Your React Favicon and Social Preview ImagesBuild a Spotify Connected AppAdd a custom favicon and share image to our app