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How to Connect Node.js to a MongoDB DatabaseTinyHouse: A Fullstack React Masterclass with TypeScript and GraphQLMany different libraries and tools exist to help facilitate the connection between a Node Server and a MongoDB instance. In this lesson, we'll introduce and use the Node MongoDB driver to make our server connect with the MongoDB cluster we've created in Atlas.
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How to Create a MongoDB Cluster in MongoDB AtlasTinyHouse: A Fullstack React Masterclass with TypeScript and GraphQLMongoDB Atlas is a fully managed cloud database service built and maintained by the same team behind MongoDB. In this lesson, we'll create our first MongoDB cluster with MongoDB Atlas.
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SQL vs NoSQL - An Intro to MongoDBTinyHouse: A Fullstack React Masterclass with TypeScript and GraphQLThis brief lesson highlights some of the differences between relational and non-relational databases, and introduces MongoDB.
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Summary of Module 3TinyHouse: A Fullstack React Masterclass with TypeScript and GraphQLThis lesson is a summary of the final state of the work done in Module 3.0.
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How to Use GraphQL Schema LanguageTinyHouse: A Fullstack React Masterclass with TypeScript and GraphQLThe GraphQL schema language is a human-readable syntax to help create GraphQL schemas. In this lesson, we'll use the GraphQL schema language to re-create the schema we have in a more readable and simpler format.
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How to Query GraphQL Data And Mutate DataTinyHouse: A Fullstack React Masterclass with TypeScript and GraphQLIn this lesson, we'll look to mimic the listings retrieval and manipulation we had in our Express RESTful API but with GraphQL instead.
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Build a GraphQL Schema And Test it in GraphQL PlaygroundTinyHouse: A Fullstack React Masterclass with TypeScript and GraphQLIn this lesson, we'll use the Apollo Server and GraphQL JavaScript libraries to create a minimal GraphQL API that we'll be able to interact within an IDE known as GraphQL Playground.
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How to Add Apollo Server for a GraphQL API in a Node.js AppTinyHouse: A Fullstack React Masterclass with TypeScript and GraphQLIn this lesson, we'll install the Express variation of the popular Apollo Server library and the GraphQL JavaScript library.
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A Guide to GraphQL Schema and Data TypesTinyHouse: A Fullstack React Masterclass with TypeScript and GraphQLIn this lesson, we introduce and discuss some of GraphQL's main concepts such as the GraphQL schema, object types and resolver functions.
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GraphQL vs REST APIs - A Comparison With GitHub's APIsTinyHouse: A Fullstack React Masterclass with TypeScript and GraphQLBefore we continue discussing some of the core concepts in GraphQL, we'll take a bit of a tangent in this lesson to contrast and compare Github's existing REST API (v3) and their GraphQL API (v4).
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What is GraphQL?TinyHouse: A Fullstack React Masterclass with TypeScript and GraphQLGraphQL is a query language for APIs. In this lesson, we go through an initial discussion on GraphQL and how GraphQL differs from traditional REST APIs.
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Summary of Module 1TinyHouse: A Fullstack React Masterclass with TypeScript and GraphQLThis lesson is a summary of the work we've done in Module 1.0.