March 2022
Intermediate to advanced
390 pages
6h 43m
English
In the last chapter, we learned how to set up a Node.js server with GraphQL support to implement a backend application. Additionally, we explained how to install Express.js and configure it with TypeScript and GraphQL. We used mocking to provide a working GraphQL server with Apollo Server before implementing the resolvers that should actually be responsible for fetching and adding data.
In addition, we set up Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) and used Apollo Studio to communicate with our GraphQL server.
In this chapter, we'll look at how to connect a MySQL database to our application using TypeORM, as well as how to create resolvers to get and save data from the database.
Now that we've built ...