React Cookbook

Creating our GraphQL backend server

Let's get started with the backend server:

1. First, inside the apollo project (the one we created with create-react-app), we need to create a new directory called backend, initialize a package.json file, and create inside the src folder:

      cd apollo      mkdir backend      cd backend      npm init -y      mkdir src

2. Now we need to install these dependencies:

      npm install cors express express-graphql graphql graphql-tools       mongoose nodemon babel-preset-es2015      npm install -g babel-cli

3. In our package.json file, we need to modify our start script to use nodemon:

      "scripts": {        "start": "nodemon src/app.js --watch src --exec babel-node         --presets es2015"      }

File: package.json

4. Then we need to create our app.js file, in which ...