5achinjani/graphql-prisma

Project setup/structure for getting started with GraphQL + Prisma + Now.sh/elasticbeanstalk and Backpack

Tools

• graphql-yoga: 🧘 Fully-featured GraphQL Server with focus on easy setup, performance & great developer experience
• Prisma: Database Tools incl. ORM, Migrations and Admin UI (Postgres, MySQL & MongoDB)
• Backpack: minimalistic build system for Node.js projects.
• Now.sh v2: To host GraphQL server.
• graphql-shield: 🛡 A GraphQL tool to ease the creation of permission layer.
• aws-elasticbeanstalk: Deploy/Host your graphql server on AWS elasticbeanstalk

Other features

• ESLint: code linter.
• Prettier: opinionated code formatter.
• babel-plugin-proposal-optional-chaining: Transform optional chaining operators into a series of nil checks
• Dotenv: Loads environment variables from .env for nodejs projects.

Prerequisite

• Node stable version. Preferred: Use nvm: Node Version Manager.

Usage

• create .development.env , .test.env , and .production.env file according to .development.example.env
• yarn (npm if you want)
• yarn dev - To start the development server with debug mode.
• yarn dev-deploy / yarn test-deploy /yarn prod-deploy - to generate the buld and deploy prisma server and graphql server

Global CLI installation:

• aws-cli: Required if you're using S3 to upload files.
• aws-elasticbeanstalk: Required if you're deploying your GraphQL server on aws-elasticbeanstalk.

-Other commands

• To generate the build

    "dev-build": "NODE_ENV=development yarn build",
    "test-build": "NODE_ENV=test yarn build",
    "prod-build": "NODE_ENV=production yarn build",

• To deploy prisma

    "prisma-deploy-dev": "prisma deploy  --env-file .development.env",
    "prisma-deploy-test": "prisma deploy --env-file .test.env",
    "prisma-deploy-prod": "prisma deploy --env-file .production.env",