graphql-upload-minimal VS apollo-server

Using the latest version of graphql-upload with NestJS can be quite tricky since it uses mjs, this means we need to use dynamic imports, alternative you can use graphql-upload-minimal, or graphql-upload version 13.

As I mentioned, their main GraphQL server package is[1], so that's where the confusion came from. Thanks.

[1] https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server/blob/9817bc47...

While working on this blog post, I learned that Apollo Server, the most popular GraphQL server for typescript, uses a similar method for adding error codes to GraphQL. It even lets you add custom errors. Hopefully, someday other GraphQL server projects will follow them. Until then, we’ve got a strong indication we took the right approach.

GraphQL is just a schema, there are many different implementations of a GraphQL server, AppSync being one of them. I mentioned Apollo server in this series as well.

After some head-scratching, I opened an issue on Apollo Server’s GitHub repository. There, Apollo Server contributor @​glasser shared a helpful suggestion: why not invoke our AuthPlugin from Apollo Server’s context function? Throwing from context would ensure we can control the HTTP status response without having to introduce more methods and error checks to our AuthPlugin (like unexpectedErrorProcessingRequest). With that suggestion in mind, we rewrote our AuthPlugin as follows:

Second, the developer experience around GraphQL is amazing, and we’ve been fortunate to use some great tools from The Guild and Apollo in building our product. For example, we publish our GraphQL schemas to Apollo Studio, we embed the Apollo Studio Explorer in our docs, and our GraphQL API is actually built on top of Apollo Server.

Apollo Server 3 Cookie Issue #5775

Apollo GraphQL API.

For backend and general typescript knowledge, I’d highly recommend Apollo GraphQL: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server

Check out their apollo-server and apollo-client repos. It’s a very useful codebase to be knowledgeable about. This is something you should mention in an interview as a strong positive if the company wants graphql experience.

In this tutorial I will explain how to upload images to a S3-compatible object storage (AWS S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, Linode Object Storage, etc.) bucket using NestJS and GraphQL for both Apollo and Mercurius drivers.

There are two main approaches to keeping the types of the GraphQL schema and entities in business logic in sync. You can generate the schema based on your TypeScript code (e.g. TypeGraphQL), or you can generate types based on your schema (e.g. GraphQL Code Generator). We opted for the latter since it slotted right into our existing GraphQL server implementation using Apollo Server.