Discuss

Serverless forum software

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Table of contents

• Video demo
• Setup
  • backend
  • client
• GraphQL queries
  • users
  • posts
  • comments

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Video demo

Setup

Backend

1. Clone git clone [email protected]:JustServerless/discuss.git to your local machine.

2. Run cd discuss to change directory.

3. Run npm install to install all necessary NPM dependencies for the Serverless project.

4. Run serverless project init to initialize the Serverless project.

5. Add the following environment variables to the JSON array of the corresponding file in _meta/variables. (e.g. in _meta/variables/s-variables-common.json)

{
  ...

  "authTokenSecret": "STRONGVALUE"
}

6. Run cd backend/lib && npm install && cd ../../ to install the NPM dependencies for the GraphQL backend.

7. Run serverless dash deploy and select endpoint and function to deploy the CORS enabled endpoint and function.

Client

1. Run cd client/src && npm install tin install the NPM dependencies for the client.

2. Replace the API_URL in client/src/app/js/actions/index.js with your deployed endpoint (the root of the endpoint) without the graphql string at the end.

3. Run npm start (in the client/src folder) to run the client locally. The client is available in your browser at http://localhost:8080/

4. Edit s-project.json and change bucketName. Run npm run build to build the client

5. Run serverless client deploy to host the frontend with the help of an S3 bucket

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GraphQL queries

Connect to the graphql endpoint of the API (e.g. http://example.com/graphql) and a run the query as the query parameter against it.

Users

signUp

mutation signUp {
  signUp (
    email: "[email protected]"
    username: "test"
    password: "12345678"
  )
  {
    id
    email
    username
    createdAt
    updatedAt
  }
}

signIn

mutation signIn {
  signIn (
    email: "[email protected]"
    password: "12345678"
  )
  {
    id
    email
    username
    createdAt
    updatedAt
    jwt
  }
}

users

{
  users {
    id
    email
    username
    createdAt
    updatedAt
  }
}

user

{
  user(id: "id") {
    id
    email
    username
    createdAt
    updatedAt
  }
}

updateCurrentUser

mutation updateCurrentUser {
  updateCurrentUser(
    email: "[email protected]"
    username: "New username"
    password: "New password"
    jwt: "jwtToken"
  )
  {
    id
    username
    email
    createdAt
    updatedAt
  }
}

deleteCurrentUser

mutation deleteCurrentUser {
  deleteCurrentUser (
    jwt: "jwtToken"
  )
  {
    id
    username
    email
    createdAt
    updatedAt
  }
}

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Posts

createPost

mutation createPost {
  createPost (
    title: "Title"
    body: "Body"
    jwt: "jwtToken"
  )
  {
    id
    title
    body
    createdAt
    updatedAt
    author {
      id
      username
      email
      createdAt
      updatedAt
    }
    comments {
      id
      body
      createdAt
      updatedAt
      author {
        id
        username
        email
        createdAt
        updatedAt
      }
    }
  }
}

posts

{
  posts {
    id
    title
    body
    createdAt
    updatedAt
    author {
      id
      username
      email
      createdAt
      updatedAt
    }
    comments {
      id
      body
      createdAt
      updatedAt
      author {
        id
        username
        email
        createdAt
        updatedAt
      }
    }
  }
}

post

{
  post(id: "id") {
    id
    title
    body
    createdAt
    updatedAt
    author {
      id
      username
      email
      createdAt
      updatedAt
    }
    comments {
      id
      body
      createdAt
      updatedAt
      author {
        id
        username
        email
        createdAt
        updatedAt
      }
    }
  }
}

updatePost

mutation updatePost {
  updatePost(
    id: "id"
    title: "New title"
    body: "New body"
    jwt: "jwtToken"
  )
  {
    id
    title
    body
    createdAt
    updatedAt
    author {
      id
      username
      email
      createdAt
      updatedAt
    }
    comments {
      id
      body
      createdAt
      updatedAt
      author {
        id
        username
        email
        createdAt
        updatedAt
      }
    }
  }
}

deletePost

mutation deletePost {
  deletePost (
    id: "id"
    jwt: "jwtToken"
  )
  {
    id
    title
    body
    createdAt
    updatedAt
    author {
      id
      username
      email
      createdAt
      updatedAt
    }
    comments {
      id
      body
      createdAt
      updatedAt
      author {
        id
        username
        email
        createdAt
        updatedAt
      }
    }
  }
}

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Comments

createComment

mutation createComment {
  createComment (
    body: "Body"
    postId: "postId"
    jwt: "jwtToken"
  )
  {
    id
    body
    createdAt
    updatedAt
    author {
      id
      username
      email
      createdAt
      updatedAt
    }
  }
}

comments

{
  comments {
    id
    body
    createdAt
    updatedAt
    author {
      id
      username
      email
      createdAt
      updatedAt
    }
  }
}

comment

{
  comment(id: "id") {
    id
    body
    createdAt
    updatedAt
    author {
      id
      username
      email
      createdAt
      updatedAt
    }
  }
}

updateComment

mutation updateComment {
  updateComment(
    id: "id"
    body: "New body"
    jwt: "jwtToken"
  )
  {
    id
    body
    createdAt
    updatedAt
    author {
      id
      username
      email
      createdAt
      updatedAt
    }
  }
}

deleteComment

mutation deleteComment {
  deleteComment (
    id: "id"
    jwt: "jwtToken"
  )
  {
    id
    body
    createdAt
    updatedAt
    author {
      id
      username
      email
      createdAt
      updatedAt
    }
  }
}