nodejs-api-starter VS relay-starter-kit

(1) React + API monorepo VS (2) React + API as separate repositories

Nope. Just plain GraphQL.js + Knex.js (example), often typed manually since it's not where most of the time spend on when building an API server (though it can be automated via a scaffolding script if there are too many db tables). Generating TypeScript definitions off the actual db schema using knex-types (example).

Examples: - https://github.com/kriasoft/node-starter-kit - basic Node.js API starter kit - https://github.com/kriasoft/graphql-starter - monorepo template with GraphQL, React, Relay

https://github.com/kriasoft/graphql-starter - See web/relay.config.js, run: yarn relay

Your first example is the code-first development approach (example), while the latter one is schema-first, popularized by Apollo.

Source code (example): https://github.com/kriasoft/graphql-starter

Here is yet another example of a Node.js (Express) middleware that encodes/decodes JWT (OAuth) token into a session cookie: https://github.com/kriasoft/graphql-starter/blob/main/api/session.ts

Details: It's going to be a Reddit-like community but for books. Just started working on this idea last week (solo) by branching out from graphql-starter open source template. Looking for feedback and feature requests.

Yes, for example:

https://github.com/kriasoft/react-starter-kit (or, relay-starter-kit)

GitHub

It also helps to have a REPL shell for Knex.js — https://i.imgur.com/P5bVdoC.gif

I generate TypeScript enums and types from the actual database schema using knex-types as part of the yarn db:reset script that used during local development (after making changes to the db schema migration files). See example project.

I tried to take advantage of TypeORM in a couple of projects, but then reverted back to knex + knex-types — just a PostgreSQL client with query builder works great, IMO, especially for GraphQL API development.

GraphQL API and Relay Starter Kit— an example of implementing GraphQL API optimized for the serverless environment (Google Cloud Functions) + a reverse proxy using Cloudflare Workers

It helps to have a monorepo setup with packages/projects such as "api", "worker" (cron job) etc. all consuming the same environment variables (db connection settings etc.), when the cron job "serverless" function is deployed, it just picks the required environment variables from the shared "env" folder/package.