Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React

CurrentUser GraphQL query

The JWT gives us the opportunity to query for the currently logged-in user. Then, we can display the correct authenticated user in the top bar. To request the logged-in user, we require a new query called currentUser on our back end. In the schema, you simply have to add the following line to the RootQuery queries:

currentUser: User @auth

Like the postsFeed and chats queries, we also need the @auth directive to extract the user from the request context.

Similarly, in the resolver functions, you only need to insert the following three lines:

currentUser(root, args, context) {  return context.user;},

We return the user from the context right away, because it is already a user model instance with all the appropriate ...