foosball-api - GraphQL API for Foosball App

NodeJS backend serving data from MongoDB through a GraphQL layer, k!boom
^for feature set and more check the app repo

Prerequisites

• NodeJS with npm
• MongoDB instance (either local or remote)

Run server

• create a .env file using the format from .env.example, with your options
  • especially important, set the db credentials
• run npm run dev
• access the api at http://localhost:4000 by default

Technologies

these are the main technologies and/or modules used, for all libraries check package.json

• NodeJS - JavaScript backend/server-side solution of choice

  • Typescript - superset of Javascript, adding types and more

• MongoDB - data storage solution that just speaks JSON and pairs very well with Node

  • Mongoose - package that helps with object modeling and manages connection between server and database

  • Bcrypt - for hashing user passwords to be stored in the database

• GraphQL - api query language, for efficient app-server data exchange

  • Apollo Server - full graphQL server implementation, to handle queries, mutations, resolvers etc.

  • JSON Web Token - generate JWTs for secure authentication