BennettDixon / book_query_app

In this project I will be experimenting with React, Django, Postgres, and primarily GraphQL to get a better understanding of how to implement GraphQL in future projects

🐚 Learning GraphQL by building a book query API 🐚

In this project I will be using GraphQL primarily to experiment with alternatives to RESTFUL design practices. I will also be using react and Django, both of which I have minimal experience with to further my learning in other frameworks.

This project was created using a tool I built: synth

🏃 Getting Started

• macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 - OS Used

• Docker CE 18.09.2 - Version of docker used

⚠️ Prerequisites

• Must have git installed

• Must have docker installed

$ sudo apt-get install git

🔧 Setup

Clone the project

git clone https://github.com/BennettDixon/book_query_app;
cd book_query_app;

Run the container network, this will build them the first time so be patient while images are downloaded and containers are built

docker-compose up -d

Locate the postgres container id using

docker ps

Execute the following, substituting your postgres container id. This will setup a user and database in your postgres container. You only need to do this once unless you delete the docker-compose volume mount or the postgres data on your local machine.

docker exec -it <container-id> psql -U postgres -f /app/postgres_setup.sql

Visit the GraphQL endpoint localhost:8800/graphql and play with GraphQL Queries!

Feel free to add objects to the /nginx_router/backend/books.json file for further testing! They will be loaded in each time you boot the containers.

Shutting it down

docker-compose down

📘 Authors

• Bennett Dixon - @BennettDixon

🔍 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

📣 Acknowledgments

• Holberton School & Docker for the pass to DockerCon 2019!