next-advanced-apollo-starter

Advanced and minimalistic Next.js and Apollo starter

What's included • Getting Started • Apollo usage • Tests • Docker usage

What's included

Features

• Latest Next.js version.
• Latest packages updates.
• GraphQL Apollo client with built-in cookie-based JWT token authentication.
• Works both via Client-Side Rendering and Server-Side Rendering;
• TypeScript environment.
• Normalize.css included.
• No custom server.

Developer experience

• Testing environment via Jest and @testing-library/react.
• Configured GraphQL Code Generator. Simply run yarn codegen.
• Prettier for code formatting.
• Debug configuration for VSCode.
• Docker configuration to serve production-ready build with Nginx.

Getting started

No extra knowledge needed to get started, see Next.js documentation.

GraphQL Code Generation

Generated interfaces for co-located .graphql files. See the example.

yarn codegen

Apollo usage

• Client-Side Rendering (CSR) example.
• Server-Side Rendering (SSR) example.

Tests

Jest is a great tool for testing. To run tests simply use test script from package.json:

yarn test

Pretty much everything you need to know about project structure, SSR, etc., you can find in the official Next.js documentation.

Docker usage

To build and run Dockerized production-ready container, run:

docker-compose up --build