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Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React

You're reading from   Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React Build scalable full-stack applications while learning to solve complex problems with GraphQL

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789134520
Length 460 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sebastian Grebe Sebastian Grebe
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Preface 1. Preparing Your Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting up GraphQL with Express.js 3. Connecting to The Database 4. Integrating React into the Back end with Apollo 5. Reusable React Components 6. Authentication with Apollo and React 7. Handling Image Uploads 8. Routing in React 9. Implementing Server-Side Rendering 10. Real-Time Subscriptions 11. Writing Tests 12. Optimizing GraphQL with Apollo Engine 13. Continuous Deployment with CircleCI and Heroku 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Authentication with GraphQL

The basics of authentication should now be clear to you. Our task is now to implement a secure way for users to authenticate. If we have a look at our current database, we are missing the required fields. Let's prepare and add a password and an email field. As we learned in Chapter 3, Connecting to the Database, we create a migration to edit our user table. You can look up the commands in the third chapter if you have forgotten them:

sequelize migration:create --migrations-path src/server/migrations --name add-email-password-to-post

The preceding command generates the new file for us. You can replace the content of it and try writing the migration on your own, or check for the right commands in the following code snippet:

'use strict';

module.exports = {
up: (queryInterface, Sequelize) => {
return Promise.all([
queryInterface...
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