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Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React

You're reading from   Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React Taking React from frontend to full-stack with GraphQL and Apollo

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801077880
Length 472 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sebastian Grebe Sebastian Grebe
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Building the Stack
2. Chapter 1: Preparing Your Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up GraphQL with Express.js 4. Chapter 3: Connecting to the Database 5. Section 2: Building the Application
6. Chapter 4: Hooking Apollo into React 7. Chapter 5: Reusable React Components and React Hooks 8. Chapter 6: Authentication with Apollo and React 9. Chapter 7: Handling Image Uploads 10. Chapter 8: Routing in React 11. Chapter 9: Implementing Server-Side Rendering 12. Chapter 10: Real-Time Subscriptions 13. Chapter 11: Writing Tests for React and Node.js 14. Section 3: Preparing for Deployment
15. Chapter 12: Continuous Deployment with CircleCI and AWS 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Advanced routing with React Router

The primary goal of this chapter is to build a profile page for your users. We need a separate page to show all of the content that a single user has entered or created. The content would not fit next to the posts feed. When looking at Facebook, we can see that every user has their own address, under which we can find the profile page of a specific user. We are going to create our profile page in the same way and use the username as the custom path.

We have to implement the following features:

  1. We add a new parameterized route for the user profile. The path starts with /user/ and follows a username.
  2. We change the user profile page to send all GraphQL queries, including the username route parameter, inside of the variables field of the GraphQL request.
  3. We edit the postsFeed query to filter all posts by the username parameter provided.
  4. We implement a new GraphQL query on the backend to request a user by their username, in order...
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