This blog is an exploration excerise to understand two new technologies - GraphQL and Relay. We are using standard rails application together with npm for handling front-end dependencies.
It's a work in progress and this repository will update as we move further with this application. The intention is to explore the integration to stage where we can get a clear understanding about these two new technologies and how they might fit in a real world application and framework.
Currently, the application supports reading and creating data from and on server.
- Introduction: https://medium.com/@gauravtiwari/graphql-and-relay-on-rails-getting-started-955a49d251de
- Part1: https://medium.com/@gauravtiwari/graphql-and-relay-on-rails-creating-types-and-schema-b3f9b232ccfc#.6micmekh2
- Part2: https://medium.com/@gauravtiwari/graphql-and-relay-on-rails-first-relay-powered-react-component-cb3f9ee95eca#.ssisfzsm0
- Part3: https://medium.com/@gauravtiwari/graphql-and-relay-on-rails-dynamic-component-rendering-2be4e208ef92#.gvw5kevg1
- Part4 https://medium.com/@gauravtiwari/graphql-and-relay-on-rails-authentication-and-authorisation-f7c07ebb47b3#.2y1h14x2p
- Part5 - Integrating Webpack with
react-on-railshttps://medium.com/@gauravtiwari/graphql-and-relay-on-rails-moving-to-webpack-9c6a420b4eea#.60z7xg1j0
- List posts
- List comments of the posts
- Infinite Scroll - posts and comments
- Show author info, votes and comments count
- Live Query editor to run graphql queries
- Mutations to create comments and votes
- Facebook Relay: Official relay docs
- GraphQL: Official GraphQL spec
- graphql-ruby & graphql-relay-ruby: For defining GraphQL schema and Relay implementation in Ruby GraphQL classes, and getting Rails to speak GraphQL.
browserify-rails: Command-line options required to do transpilation, e.g., —plugin, etc.
- Add relay mutations to edit/update/destroy model states
- Add user authorization
- Explore Relay subscriptions to hook it with ActionCable http://graphql.org/blog/subscriptions-in-graphql-and-relay/
- Add a react native app
- Probably more...
To run the application, please just clone the repo and run it like so:
git clone git@github.com:gauravtiwari/relay-rails-blog.git
cd relay-rails-blog
npm install
./start (from terminal). If you get permission error, just do chmod 777 start