scheung38 / graphql-engine-heroku

Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on Postgres with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.

Hasura GraphQL Engine on Heroku

Hasura GraphQL Engine is a blazing-fast GraphQL server that gives you ⚡ instant, realtime GraphQL APIs over Postgres, with webhook triggers on database events for asynchronous business logic.

Hasura helps you build GraphQL apps backed by Postgres or incrementally move to GraphQL for existing applications using Postgres.

Deploy Hasura GraphQL Engine on Heroku and get a GraphQL endpoint in under 30 seconds 🕐

Read more at hasura.io and the docs.

Quickstart

1. Deploy to Heroku

Deploy to Heroku and instantly get a realtime GraphQL API backed by Heroku Postgres:

2. Open Hasura Console

Once the deployment is complete, click on the View button as marked above. This will take you to the Hasura Console, where you can create a table and make your first GraphQL query.

3. Create a table

Navigate to Data -> Create table on the console and create a table called profile with the following columns:

name	type
id	Integer (auto-increment)
name	Text

Choose id as the Primary key and click the Create button.

4. Insert sample data

Once the table is created, go to the Insert Row tab and insert some sample rows:

Thor
Iron Man
Hulk
Captain America
Black Widow

5. Try out GraphQL

Switch to the GraphiQL tab on top and execute the following GraphQL query:

query {
  profile {
    id
    name
  }
}

Support & Troubleshooting

Feel free to talk to us on Discord about anything and everything. You can also contact us using one of the following channels:

• Support & feedback: Discord
• Issue & bug tracking: GitHub issues
• Follow product updates: @HasuraHQ
• Talk to us on our website chat.

Next steps

• Using an existing Heroku database
• Securing your GraphQL Endpoint
• Checking GraphQL Engine logs
• Updating to the latest version

Further reading

• Building your schema
• GraphQL Queries
• GraphQL Mutations
• GraphQL Subscriptions
• Event Triggers
• Authentication/Access control
• Database Migrations
• Guides/Tutorials/Resources

heroku login ✗ heroku create rtl-backend --stack=container › Warning: heroku update available from 7.59.0 to 7.59.2. Creating ⬢ rtl-backend... done, stack is container https://rtl-backend.herokuapp.com/ | https://git.heroku.com/rtl-backend.git

✗ heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev -a rtl-backend
› Warning: heroku update available from 7.59.0 to 7.59.2. Creating heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev on ⬢ rtl-backend... free Database has been created and is available ! This database is empty. If upgrading, you can transfer ! data from another database with pg:copy Created postgresql-cubed-77153 as DATABASE_URL Use heroku addons:docs heroku-postgresql to view documentation

https://dashboard.heroku.com/apps

then

https://dashboard.heroku.com/apps/rtl-backend

then Resources

will show Heroku Postgres

➜ heroku git:remote -a rtl-backend

➜ git push heroku master

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Now we van make a database migration

➜ npm i -g hasura-cli

Below is process for data migration

✗ hasura init rm_migrations INFO a new pre-release version is available:

• v2.1.0-beta.3 (changelog: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/releases/tag/v2.1.0-beta.3) to update cli to this version, execute:

  hasura update-cli --version v2.1.0-beta.3

INFO directory created. execute the following commands to continue:

cd rm_migrations hasura console

But need to change 8080 to 8081

endpoint: http://localhost:8080 -> endpoint: http://localhost:8081