March 2022
Intermediate to advanced
390 pages
6h 43m
English
In the previous chapter, we covered how to connect a MySQL database to our web application using TypeORM and we implemented some of the resolvers for communicating with the database. We've been able to expose a working GraphQL API with actual resolvers that query and remove data from a real MySQL database.
We used TypeORM for working with the database instead of plain SQL, which abstracts the underlying database management system and SQL instructions using high-level programming constructs in TypeScript.
We have created the TypeORM entities responsible for generating the database tables and columns for our social application and integrated TypeORM with Apollo Server. ...