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Building Vue.js Applications with GraphQL

You're reading from   Building Vue.js Applications with GraphQL Develop a complete full-stack chat app from scratch using Vue.js, Quasar Framework, and AWS Amplify

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800565074
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Heitor Ramon Ribeiro Heitor Ramon Ribeiro
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Preface 1. Data Binding, Events, and Computed Properties 2. Components, Mixins, and Functional Components FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting Up Our Chat App - AWS Amplify Environment and GraphQL 4. Creating Custom Application Components and Layouts 5. Creating the User Vuex Module, Pages, and Routes 6. Creating Chat and Message Vuex, Pages, and Routes 7. Transforming Your App into a PWA and Deploying to the Web 8. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating your first GraphQL API

AWS Amplify provides the possibility to have a GraphQL API out of the box with simple steps and lots of additional options including authentication, deployments, and environments. This provides us with the ability to develop an API fast with just a GraphQL SDL schema, and AWS Amplify will build the API, DynamoDB instance, and the proxy server for the connection.

In this recipe, we will learn how to create a GraphQL API using AWS Amplify and add AWS Cognito functionality for authentication.

Getting ready

The prerequisites for this recipe are as follows:

  • The previous recipe's project
  • Node.js 12+

The Node.js global object that is required is @aws-amplify/cli.

To install AWS Amplify, you need to open the Terminal (macOS or Linux) or the Command Prompt/PowerShell (Windows) and execute the following command:

> npm install -g @aws-amplify/cli

In this recipe, we will use the project from the Creating your AWS Amplify Environment recipe. Please complete...

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