givehug / devto-monorepo

Source code for the Dev.to article - Next.js, Apollo Client and Server on a single Express app

This article describes two things:

1. How to fit Next.js with Apollo Client on front end and Apollo Server GraphQL api into a single Express app. Another important requirement was to have SSR support. As there is not much info about it out there, this is the main purpose of this guide.
2. How to organize everything nicely into yarn workspaces monorepo and deploy to Heroku as a single free plan app. You will find a lot of into about it, but I included it here as a part of the process of the project I was working on.

Usage

Make sure you have Node.js 13+ as specified in package.json "engines" object. It is only required for Heroku deployment. If you have older versions, just remove it from package.json.

yarn install

yarn dev

open http://localhost:3000