contentful-apollo-federation example

Example repo showing how to use this package: https://github.com/xolvio/contentful-federation/

How to run

Creating the content in Contentful

This creates a "Review" content type and a "Review" content entry.

npm run build && CONTENTFUL_SPACE=<CONTENTFUL_SPACE_ID> CONTENTFUL_ACCESS_TOKEN=<CONTENTFUL_CONTENT_MANAGEMENT_TOKEN> CONTENTFUL_ENVIRONMENT=<CONTENTFUL_ENVIRONMENT> npm run create-content

Alternatively you can also create the content manually through the Contentful UI.

Installation

npm install

Building

npm run build

Starting

Starting subgraph servers

CONTENTFUL_SPACE=<SPACE> CONTENTFUL_ACCESS_TOKEN=<ACCESS_TOKEN> npm run start-subgraphs

Composing the supergraph

Requirements

• Rover CLI with Federation 2 plugin installed

npm run compose

Starting gateway server

npm run start-gateway

Creating the Contentful content manually

Creating the model in Contentful

1. In the Contentful UI, go to the page "Content model":
2. Add content type
3. Name: Review
4. Create
5. Add field 1. Type: Text 2. Name: upc 3. Create
6. Add field 1. Type: Text 2. Name: body 3. Long text, full-text search 4. Create
7. Save

Creating the content in Contentful

1. In the Contentful UI, go to the page "Content":
2. Add entry: Review
3. upc: 1
4. Publish