Conclusion

This is now the end of this chapter.

We covered the following concepts:

• Organising your files in a scalable way.

• Reading secrets from environment variables.

• Managing different configurations based on your environments.

• How to use Express and GraphQL together.

• How to build a strongly typed GraphQL API.

• How to add an extra layer on security.

• Connecting to the database.

• Mocking database interaction and the GraphQL server.

• User authentication.

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