Monorepo with GraphQL Microservices and React Relay specifications

Monorepo: All services are in this repository. We share code by creating internal packages. We use Docker Compose to run the services and databases locally.

GraphQL microservices: We are exposing GraphQL schemas with React Relay specifications and HTTP2 support at application layer. Using SSE to support realtime features and gRPC to communicate between microservices.

React Relay: SPA uses META's GraphQL client to make requests alonside with code splitting techniques, the render-as-you-fetch pattern and React Suspense features to improve the User and Developer Experience. Also, it uses an Atomic CSS Framework to generate a small CSS file.

Event Driven Architecture: We are using Kafka and indempotent workers.

Testing: We are testing the project with native Node's Test Runner: We test Kafka, MongoDB and Redis by using the testcontainers library, GraphQL microservices by using the supertest library and React Components by using @testing-library/react.

(I'm experimenting with Rust and Cassandra in other folders.)

Demo: https://relay-graphql-monorepo.com

Programming Languages:

• Javascript
• Typescript

Architecture Tools:

• Kafka
• gRPC
• GraphQL (Relay specifications)

Developer Tools:

• Webpack
• Biome
• Babel
• Docker
• PNPM

NPM Dependency Highlights:

• graphql
• jsonwebtokens
• @grpc/grpc-js
• kafkajs
• cron
• mongodb
• react
• react-relay
• stylexjs/stylex
• supertest
• testcontainers

Databases:

• MongoDB
• Redis

To set up the project locally:

1. Install Docker and Node.js 22

2. Run make setup at root folder (this will create a volume in Docker in which the dependencies will be stored)

3. Run make install at root folder (this will install dependencies by using an Alpine Linux OS)

4. Run pnpm install at root folder (this will help your IDE to apply linting)

5. Install minica and run minica --domains localhost. Then copy minica.pem, cert.pem and key.pem from minica to certs project folder (this will create a self-signed certificate so node microservices can use HTTP2).

6. Run make up at root folder (this will run the instances with Docker Compose)

7. Run pnpm populate at root folder from another terminal window (this will populate the mongo database with data)

8. Go to http://localhost:8000 to see the application