GraphQL and MongoDB — a quick example

A quick example with Apollo server for Express, mutations, MongoDB resolvers including support for nested queries in about 100 lines of code.

GraphQL documentation out there tends to focus on queries, less on mutations, less on defining a…

Note to self: never get stuck with a framework again

or the long road in and out of Meteor

Methods and subscriptions as collection helpers

Most of my meteor methods and publications belong to one of these two categories:

1. They are specific to a collection (e.g. publication myPosts, method newPost are specific to the collection Posts).

Truly isomorphic publications

Meteor methods already have it: when you publish a method, it is immediately available both on the client and on the server, with the same signature.

Meteor.methods({
  newPost({title, content}) {
    if (Meteor.userId()) {
      Posts.insert({…