MikaelBrenner / not-twitter-gqlgen

A very simple GraphQL-based twitter clone to evaluate the Go gqlgen library. Implemented functionality includes JWT-based authentication, mutations and queries.

not-twitter-gqlgen

Description

A very simple GraphQL-based twitter clone to evaluate the Go gqlgen library. It uses MySQL for data persistence, used without an ORM.

Implemented functionality includes JWT-based authentication, mutations and queries for the tweet and user entity.

Comments

I personally did not enjoy the structure created and somewhat enforced by gqlgen. While there are many improvements possible to this basic code(externalizing configuration, ORM, Clean Architecture), the schema-first approach, and the generated structure did not appeal to me, which is why I'll probably not be updating this repo.

Running the API

You can use docker-compose to run the application:

docker-compose up -d # the -d option runs the containers in the background

This starts the server at the port 9797.

Usage

The GraphQL Playground(and server) can be accessed at the / endpoint, and the available entity is tweets, and the available mutations are:

• createUser
• createTweet
• login
• refreshToken