public/subjects/graphql

GraphQL

Objectives

The objective of this project is to learn the GraphQL query language, by creating your own profile page.

You'll use the GraphQL endpoint which is provided by the platform (https://((DOMAIN))/api/graphql-engine/v1/graphql). You'll be able to query your own data to populate your profile page.

So that you can access your data, you'll need to create a login page.

Your profile must display three pieces of information which you may choose. For example:

• Basic user identification
• XP amount
• grades
• audits
• skills

Beside those sections it will have a mandatory section for the generation of statistic graphs.

Instructions

You will have to create a profile UI where you can see your own school information. This information/data is present on the GraphQL endpoint, where you will have to query it.

The UI design is up to you. However, it must have a statistic section where you can generate graphs to see more about your journey and achievements on the school. This graphs must be done using SVG. You need to do at least two different statistic graphs for the data given. Bare in mind the principles of a good UI.

Using SVG you can create several types of graphs including interactive graphs and animated graph. It will be up to you to decide what type of graphs you are going to do.

Here are some possible combinations for the creation of the graphs:

• XP earned in a time period (progress over time)
• XP earned by project
• Audit ratio
• Projects PASS and FAIL ratio
• Piscine (JS/Go) stats
  • PASS and FAIL ratio
  • Attempts for each exercise

Any other information you desire to display is welcome and will be noted.

Login Page

You'll need a JWT to access the GraphQL API. A JWT can be obtained from the signin endpoint (https://((DOMAIN))/api/auth/signin).

You may make a POST request to the signin endpoint, and supply your credentials using Basic authentication, with base64 encoding.

Your login page must function with both:

• username:password
• email:password

If the credentials are invalid, an appropriate error message must be displayed.

You must provide a method to log out.

When making GraphQL queries, you'll supply the JWT using Bearer authentication. It will only allow access to the data belonging to the authenticated user.

You may inspect the JWT to discover the ID of the authenticated user.

Hosting

Besides the creation of your own profile you will have to host it. There are several places where you can host your profile, for example: github-pages, netlify and so on. You are free to choose the hosting place.

Here are a selection of interesting tables and columns which are exposed via GraphQL:

• user table:

  This table will have information about the user.

  id	login
  1	person1

• transaction table:

  This table will give you access to XP and through user table you can get to the audits ratio as well.

  id	type	amount	objectId	userId	createdAt	path
  1	xp	234	42	1	2021-07-26T13:04:02.301092+00:00	/madere/div-01/graphql
  2	xp	1700	2	1	2021-07-26T13:04:02.301092+00:00	/madere/div-01/graphql
  3	xp	175	64	1	2021-07-26T13:04:02.301092+00:00	/madere/div-01/graphql

• progress table:

  id	userId	objectId	grade	createdAt	updatedAt	path
  1	1	3001	1	2021-07-26T13:04:02.301092+00:00	2021-07-26T13:04:02.301092+00:00	/madere/piscine-go/quest-01
  2	1	198	0	2021-07-26T13:04:02.301092+00:00	2021-07-26T13:04:02.301092+00:00	/madere/piscine-go/quest-01
  3	1	177	1	2021-07-26T13:04:02.301092+00:00	2021-07-26T13:04:02.301092+00:00	/madere/piscine-go/quest-01

• result table:

  Both progress and result table will give you the student progression.

  id	objectId	userId	grade	type	createdAt	updatedAt	path
  1	3	1	0		2021-07-26T13:04:02.301092+00:00	2021-07-26T13:04:02.301092+00:00	/madere/div-01/graphql
  2	23	1	0		2021-07-26T13:04:02.301092+00:00	2021-07-26T13:04:02.301092+00:00	/madere/div-01/graphql
  3	41	1	1		2021-07-26T13:04:02.301092+00:00	2021-07-26T13:04:02.301092+00:00	/madere/div-01/graphql

• object table:

  This table will give you information about all objects (exercises/projects).

  id	name	type	attrs
  1	0	exercise	{}
  2	0	project	{}
  3	1	exercise	{}

For more information about the tables and their columns you check out the database-structure and database-relations.

Examples:

Lets take for instance the table user and try to query it:

{
  user {
    id
  }
}

This simple query will return an array with the id of the authenticated user. If you wanted the login, you could just add the attribute to the query like so:

{
  user {
    id
    login
  }
}

Here is another example of a query using the table user:

{
  object(where: { id: { _eq: 3323 }}) {
    name
    type
  }
}

Note: that for this query the introduction of variables (arguments) is required, so it will return just one object with the id equal to 3323.

In GraphQL, the usage of arguments are specified in the schema. You can see the available query parameters by introspecting the API.

If you're logged in to the platform, you may access GraphiQL to more easily explore the schema.

Example of nesting using the result and user table:

{
  result {
    id
    user {
      id
      login
    }
  }
}

For this example we ask for the results id and user that is associated to the result, requesting the user login and his id.

You must use all the types of querying present above (normal, nested and using arguments), do not forget that you can use the types together or separately.

This project will help you learn about:

• GraphQL
• GraphiQL
• Hosting
• JWT
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Basics of human-computer interface
  • UI/UX