express-mongo-graphql-starter

A starter API project with nodejs + express + mongo + graphql (apollo) stack, secured by jsonwebtoken. This repository will be a starting point for my upcoming nodejs based graphql projects. Can be a starting point for anyone who is interested in learning graphql too!

Using a mongo database on default port and creating two collections: User and Record. Collections have a 1-n relation.

Api is running on port number 3333, serving two endpoints:

• /auth signup and authentication, open for everyone
• /graphql basic crud operations and search of record entity, requires Authorization token on header

Usage

After all required packages are installed by npm install command, node index.js or npm run start will make the API running.

Once it runs on local machine or cloud environment, any API testing tool like Postman would work. API responds as expected, if the request is a HTTP POST, with Content-Type specified as application/json on the header.

Sample authentication queries to paste to the request body:

• Signup:

{ 
  "query": "mutation SignupUserMutation($email: String, $password: String, $username: String) {
    signupUser(email: $email, password: $password, username: $username) { user { id username } token }
  }", 
  "variables": {"password": "1234", "email": "alper@mail.com", "username": "alperklc"}
} 

• Authentication of a user:

{
  "query": "mutation SigninUserMutation($email: String!, $password: String!) { authenticateUser(email: $email, password: $password) { user { id username updatedAt } token }
  }",
  "variables": {"password": "1234", "email": "alper@mail.com"}
}

CRUD and search queries for Record entity:
We will get a token after login via authenticateUser mutation on auth endpoint. Following examples are requiring this token specified on the header (Authorization: token). CRUD operations are restricted to the given user.

• Create record:

{
  "query": "mutation createRecord($description: String) {
    createRecord(description: $description) { id }
  }",
  "variables": {
    "description": "test"
  }
}

• Update record:

{
  "query": "mutation updateRecord($description: String $id: ID!) { updateRecord(description: $description id: $id) }",
  "variables": {
    "id": "5aa03efc9769c32ba2f4f5b5",
    "description": "test edit"
  }
}

• Delete record:

{
  "query": "mutation deleteRecord($id: ID!){ deleteRecord(id: $id) }",
   "variables": {
     "id": "5aa05b6a8fef4c40d74c88fb"
   }
}

• Get a record by ID:

{
  "query": "query getRecordById($id: ID){ initialRecord: getRecordById(id: $id) { id description } }",
  "variables": {"id": "5aa03efc9769c32ba2f4f5b5"}
}

• Search record:

{
  "query": "query searchRecord($keyword: String! $dateGreaterThanEqual: String! $dateLessThanEqual: String!) { searchRecord(keyword: $keyword, dateGreaterThanEqual: $dateGreaterThanEqual, dateLessThanEqual: $dateLessThanEqual) { id description } }",
  "variables": {
    "keyword": "te",
    "dateGreaterThanEqual": "2017-12-08T00:00:00.000Z",
    "dateLessThanEqual": "2019-08-08"
  }
}

Technology Stack

nodejs, express, graphql, apollo, mongodb, mongoose, jsonwebtoken

Roadmap / Future plans

• Will add unit and integration tests to this starter project.
• Use it on my future projects.

How to contribute?

• Fork, develop further and send a pull request :)
• Issues are welcomed too.

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