Advanced TypeScript Programming Projects

Using Apollo Server as our server

We are going to create a new server implementation for this project, rather than reusing any of the server infrastructure from the previous chapter. Apollo provides its own server implementation (called Apollo Server), which we are going to use in place of Express. As usual, we are going to start off by bringing in the necessary types, and then we will create our class with the class definition. In the constructor, we are going to bring in a reference to our Mongo database class.

Apollo Server is part of the overall Apollo GraphQL strategy for providing out-of-the-box GraphQL support. The server can either stand on its own or work with server frameworks such as Express for serving up self-documenting GraphQL ...