README
Why GraphQL with Firebase?
Firebase is an awesome platform for developers. It’s a one-stop-shop for authentication, hosting, database, and serverless cloud functions. It is realtime first and it has a very generous free tier and awesome tooling. But it has one achilles heel: querying the database. GraphQL provides a very dynamic and expressive query layer and can vastly simplify fetching operations for Firebase clients.
Why Apollo Server 2?
apollo-server-express is very lightweight, easy to wire up, and pairs well with Firebase Cloud Functions. That makes it cheap, cheap, and cheap.
Install Firebase CLI
npm install -g firebase
npm install -g firebase-tools
Create a Firebase project
First ensure you have OAuth 2.0 authentication
firebase login
Then create a project folder and initialize the project with Functions. This project uses JavaScript.
firebase init
◯ Functions: Configure and deploy Cloud Functions
Install dependencies
cd functions
npm install
npm install apollo-server-express express graphql