We recently published 0.5 version of cultofcoders:apollo, the newest and most solid release ever. Works with apollo-server-express@2 meaning we have all the coolest things Apollo team did in their Apollo Server 2 versions. (few of them: built-in Upload Support, built-in cors support)
Let me clarify something: Meteor & Apollo are a match made in heaven, we benefit of Meteor’s simplicity, user system, reactivity and at the same time benefit of the awesome GraphQL API with lots of goodies.
We have things like:
Meteor Accounts Built-Integration
Your client can be anywhere (even in React Native), no dependency on Meteor
You have live queries! Yes. You do.
You have built-in support with Grapher
You can scale your queries with RedisOplog. (Now this is what I’m talking about)
You can deploy it with mup in an auto-scaling, zero-downtime environment (zero devops skills required)
With Apollo, you can take your app offline, you can do serious caching on client making things a breeze, and coupled with a frontend framework like React, things are wonderful.
Did I mention that it’s very easy to set up too ?
Thank you, hope this becomes useful!
PS: I’m working on providing tutorials for Meteor & Apollo & React so stay tuned, great things await. I promise.
I wonder if mdg adapts this as their official meteor integration, because I find it alienating that mdg develops both but is unable to offer a sophisticated apollo integration into meteor…
I do not know if they will regard it as official, but if they add it in the documentation, it’ll be enough, people need to see the options they have, there’s also the ddp-apollo package to take into consideration
However this is more than just an apollo integration, it does a lot of things simple.
Same way as you with do it with Apollo. Note that this package, because it’s Meteor has tight dependency on MongoDB If you want a fresh non-mongo approach, start with a bare project, and copy the way server is initialised from this package, so I would not advise using this package directly, Apollo is already simple, look how I hooked it bare-bones in Meteor with SQL:
I was referring to the new Data Sources, which is part of Apollo Server 2. I think MDG hasn’t provided a MySQL Data Source yet, only RESTDataSource. I don’t want to use the old ways of connecting MySQL with Apollo.
Hi @diaconutheodor, I just upgraded to 0.5.1 and it broke my app . My client is react-native and the web socket link seems to drop after I log in. I am still investigating. If I revert to 0.4.2 and Apollo 1.4.0, everything works. I have logged am issue on GitHub. I noticed that the endpoint for subscriptions charged from “subscriptions” to “graphql”.
Ok I found it, and I did all that. I can run queries and subscriptions from playground, but not subscriptions from react-native. I have done some investigations and updated the issue on GitHub. Essentially, I deliberately bounce the websocket link when I get a new login token, but when I send the login token in the header, it never gets reconnected.
@diaconutheodor, I found the issue. There was a bug where the MeteorApolloConfig was not being passed to the subscription config getter. I have opened a pull request.
@stig@sacha an extensive boilerplate is on the way, I have lots of things on my plate but we’re working on the documentation of it all.
Regarding Grapher, it’s tightly integrated, however no-one stops you in having your client written with create-react-app or anything and use Meteor’s API as Apollo, that’s the beauty of this, the client can be even in React Native.
SSR is also do-able, we may need to hook into account packages to store a cookie as authToken, and you can have free-ssr with React without having to think about it. (Built-in a single package)
The vision is to create a “framework” that works together with everything kind of like Vulcan JS.
Sounds good @sacha I am interested in following the vision, if VulcanJS needs certain things implemented, create an issue I will seriously consider it. It can be very good for marketing purposes as well.
If you want a fresh non-mongo approach, start with a bare project, and copy the way server is initialised from this package, so I would not advise using this package directly, Apollo is already simple, look how I hooked it bare-bones in Meteor with SQL:
. My client is react-native and the web socket link seems to drop after I log in. I am still investigating. If I revert to 0.4.2 and Apollo 1.4.0, everything works. I have logged am issue on GitHub. I noticed that the endpoint for subscriptions charged from “subscriptions” to “graphql”.