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A fullstack GraphQL boilerplate combining Apollo Server on Express with a React Apollo Client, backed by PostgreSQL via Sequelize. It ships with JWT authentication, role-based authorization, cursor-based pagination, dataloader performance optimizations, and E2E testing setup.

Use cases

• start a fullstack GraphQL app with Apollo and PostgreSQL
• learn how to build an Apollo Server with Express and Sequelize
• scaffold a React + Apollo Client project with authentication
• see examples of JWT sign up, sign in, and sign out in GraphQL
• implement role-based authorization in GraphQL resolvers
• set up cursor-based pagination in a GraphQL API
• learn E2E testing for a GraphQL fullstack app

When to choose

• starting a new Node.js GraphQL project with PostgreSQL and React
• learning Apollo Server and Apollo Client from a working example
• needing authentication and authorization wired up out of the box

When to avoid

• you need a production-ready, actively maintained starter (last release 2020)
• your stack is not Node.js, Express, React, or PostgreSQL
• you want REST instead of GraphQL
• you prefer an ORM other than Sequelize

Facets

learning-resource · maturity maintenance

graphql auth authorization web-framework database e2e-testing web-development backend frontend apis databases developer-tools cross-platform apollo-server apollo-client express postgresql sequelize react starter-kit jwt fullstack dataloader boilerplate nodejs javascript web-server

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