I'm fairly new to GraphQL and currently familiarizing myself by making a quiz application using React on the front-end.
At the moment, I'm busy with my back-end. After successfully setting up queries and mutations, I am finding it difficult to get subscriptions working. When using GraphiQL, I am getting null
as an output instead of "Your subscription data will appear here..."
Queries and the mutation for adding the quiz works.
The entry point of my server, app.js:
const express = require("express");
const mongoose = require("mongoose");
const { graphqlHTTP } = require("express-graphql");
const schema = require("./graphql/schema");
const cors = require("cors");
const port = 4000;
//Subscriptions
const { createServer } = require("http");
const { SubscriptionServer } = require("subscriptions-transport-ws");
const { execute, subscribe } = require("graphql");
const subscriptionsEndpoint = `ws://localhost:${port}/subscriptions`;
const app = express();
app.use(cors());
mongoose.connect("mongodb://localhost/quizify", {
useNewUrlParser: true,
useCreateIndex: true,
useUnifiedTopology: true,
useFindAndModify: false
});
mongoose.connection.once("open", () => console.log("connected to database"));
app.use("/graphql", graphqlHTTP({
schema,
graphiql: true,
subscriptionsEndpoint,
}));
const webServer = createServer(app);
webServer.listen(port, () => {
console.log(`GraphQL is now running on http://localhost:${port}`);
//Set up the WebSocket for handling GraphQL subscriptions.
new SubscriptionServer({
execute,
subscribe,
schema
}, {
server: webServer,
path: '/subscriptions',
});
});
Below is from the schema definitions, schema.js:
const { graphqlHTTP } = require("express-graphql");
const graphql = require("graphql");
const { PubSub } = require("graphql-subscriptions");
const pubsub = new PubSub();
//Import of Mongoose Schemas:
const Quiz = require("../models/quiz");
const {
GraphQLObjectType,
GraphQLList,
GraphQLSchema,
GraphQLNonNull,
GraphQLID,
GraphQLString,
GraphQLBoolean
} = graphql;
const QuizType = new GraphQLObjectType({
name: "Quiz",
fields: () => ({
id: { type: GraphQLID },
title: { type: GraphQLString },
questions: {
type: new GraphQLList(QuestionType),
resolve(parent, args) {
return Question.find({ quizId: parent.id });
}
},
creator: {
type: UserType,
resolve(parent, args) {
return User.findById(parent.creatorId);
}
}
})
});
const NEW_QUIZ_ADDED = "new_quiz_added";
const Subscription = new GraphQLObjectType({
name: "Subscription",
fields: {
quizAdded: {
type: QuizType,
subscribe: () => {
pubsub.asyncIterator(NEW_QUIZ_ADDED);
},
},
}
});
const Mutation = new GraphQLObjectType({
name: "Mutation",
fields: {
createQuiz: {
type: QuizType,
args: {
title: { type: new GraphQLNonNull(GraphQLString) },
creatorId: { type: new GraphQLNonNull(GraphQLID) }
},
resolve(parent, args) {
const newQuiz = new Quiz({ //Quiz imported from Mongoose schema.
title: args.title,
creatorId: args.creatorId,
});
pubsub.publish(NEW_QUIZ_ADDED, { quizAdded }); //NEW_QUIZ_ADDED - a constant defined above for easier referencing.
return newQuiz.save();
}
},
},
});
module.exports = new GraphQLSchema({
query: RootQuery,
mutation: Mutation,
subscription: Subscription,
});
I've looked around, however I'm not finding an method that works for this kind of site. I know it might sound like a simple problem. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!