Blogs-example NPM

Blogs Example

This is a simple microblogging app intended to be an example of the Gestalt framework using PostgreSQL. Users of the app can sign up, sign in and out, create posts, follow other users, and view a feed of posts written by users they follow.

Running the app:

Make sure you have PostgreSQL installed, and a database named 'blogs_example'

brew install postgresql to install PostgreSQL
createdb blogs_example to create a database named 'blogs_example'

Migrate and load the seed data

gestalt migrate
psql -d blogs_example -f seeds.sql

Compile the client code

npm install
npm run build

Start the server

npm start

You can load the app at http://localhost:3000/ or explore the schema using GraphiQL at http://localhost:3000/graphql.

Approaching the code:

The entry point to the server code is server.js, it creates an express app and attaches the gestalt-server middleware and gestalt-postgres database adapter. server.js loads schema.graphql which defines the types which will be stored in the database and available to the GraphQL API.

Custom resolution for some fields on the User and Session types can be found in the objects directory, and mutation code can be found in mutations.

The client code is in client, and its entry point is client/index.js. It uses react, react-router, and relay.