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