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[Graphql RealWorld Example App]

Graphene-Django codebase containing real world examples (CRUD, auth, advanced patterns, etc) that adheres to the RealWorld spec and API.

A Graphql server implementation using Graphene-Django

This codebase was created to demonstrate a fully fledged fullstack application built with Django including CRUD operations, authentication, routing, pagination, and more.

For more information on how to this works with other frontends/backends, head over to the RealWorld repo.

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How it works

A Graphql Implementation using facebook relay specs

Full graphql schema can be found at schema.graphql

Folder Structure:

  1. core: contains all core functionalites ex (BaseModel, BaseMutation)
  2. users contains user related mutation, models, types, queries
  3. articles contains all article related models, mutation, types, queries
  4. tests all test related stuff
  5. medium contains all django urls, settings, and others.

Getting started

  1. Install dependancies poetry install

  2. create .env file with this content DEBUG=True SECRET_KEY=test-secret-key DATABASE_URL=postgresql://postgres:password@localhost:5432/medium

  3. run migration poetry run python manage.py migrate

  4. run server poetry run python manage.py runserver 8000

  5. open graphql playground using http://localhost:8000/playground

  6. to connect to it via API use http://localhost:8000/graphql

Third Party Packages

  1. graphene-django: Add Graphql to a django server
  2. python-decouple: manage django settings using .env file
  3. django-graphql-jwt: Add JWT authentication
  4. graphene-django-optimizer: Optimize database queries to avoid N+1 problem
  5. graphene-file-upload: Add mutlipart file upload mutations to graphene

Testing

some tests were added to tests directory, packages used for testing:

  1. pytest
  2. pytest-django
  3. factory-boy

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