graphql-engine/community/sample-apps/react-static-graphql

react-static-graphql

A sample app to get started with react-static site generator, Hasura GraphQL engine and Postgres as database.

Tutorial

• Deploy Postgres and GraphQL Engine on Heroku:

  

  Please checkout our docs for other deployment methods

• Get the Heroku app URL (say my-app.herokuapp.com)

• Create author table:

  Open Hasura console: visit https://my-app.herokuapp.com on a browser
  Navigate to Data section in the top nav bar and create a table as follows:

  

• Insert sample data into author table:

  

  Verify if the row is inserted successfully

  

• Similarly, create an article table with the following data model: table: article columns: id, title, content, author_id (foreign key to author table's id) and created_at

  

• Now create a relationship from article table to author table by going to the Relationships tab.

• Clone this repo:

  git clone https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine
  cd graphql-engine/community/sample-apps/react-static-graphql
  

• Install npm modules:

  yarn install
  

• Open src/apollo.js and configure Hasura's GraphQL Endpoint as follows:

  
    import { ApolloClient } from 'apollo-client'
    import { HttpLink } from 'apollo-link-http'
    import { InMemoryCache } from 'apollo-cache-inmemory'
    import fetch from 'node-fetch'
  
    const client = new ApolloClient({
      link: new HttpLink({
        uri: 'https://myapp.herokuapp.com/v1alpha1/graphql',
        fetch
      }),
      cache: new InMemoryCache(),
    })
  
    export default client
  
  

Replace the uri argument with your Hasura GraphQL Endpoint.

• We have defined the graphql query in src/graphql/queries/queries.js.

  • GraphQL query to fetch author information

  
  query {
    author {
      id
      name
    }
  }
  
  

  • GraphQL query to fetch articles written by author

  
  query($author: Int!) {
      article(where: {author_id: {_eq: $author}}) {
          id
          title
          content
          created_at
      }
  }
  
  

• In pages/blog.js, we do the templating for listing all the authors and in containers/Post.js, we do the templating for listing all the articles written by a selected author.

• Run the app:

  yarn start
  

• Test the app Visit http://localhost:3000 to view the app

• Bundle app

  yarn stage
  

• Serve Production app

  yarn serve
  

For detailed explanation on how things work, checkout react-static docs.