Serverless & Graphql Talk

Using the Serverless Framework and Apollo GraphQL Services to write a simple ToDo app that demonstrates the power of GraphQL and Serverless.

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Concepts

Apollo Server and Apollo Client
Apollo Server with AWS Lambda & S3
Using React and Apollo Client
Serverless Framework

Demonstration

Simple To-Do list using GraphQL
Step by step
How to setup a serverless deployment of a React SPA that uses AWS Lambda for its back end
Integrates GraphQL to do some queries
Queries will pull from JSON file.

Stages

Project setup (folder structure, tooling, libraries etc)
Write the React Frontend
Introduce Apollo Client and integrate
Introduce Apollo Server
Write the backend
Serverless framework and AWS Lambda / AWS API Gateway
Using Apollo Server with Lambda
Deployment
Working demonstration
Testing (Maybe?)
Project cleanup

Next Steps / Further talks

How to use TypeScript
How to use MongoDB Atlas
How to use DynamoDB
How to use Cognito