ollyd / flapi-bff

A Node/GraphQL BFF layer for a web app wrapping the public Flickr REST API

Flapi-BFF

A backend for the frontend layer for a web application which hits the Flickr public API to retrieve photos. The UI layer can be found here.

Note: the first time you hit the backend it will take a few seconds. This is because it's hosted on Heroku and it needs some time for the dyno to fire up. Subsequent hits will be much faster.

Tech

It uses Apollo, GraphQL, Node and Express. GraphQL acts as a wrapper around the public Flickr endpoint.

Installation

Clone this repo.

$ yarn install
$ yarn dev

For production:

$ yarn start

Todo

Field	Task
Config	Should use a .env file
Security	Self-signed SSL certs for https
Testing	Get Jest working with esm in order for testing to use ES6 imports

Considerations

Field	Task
Usability	Perhaps a Lambda function would've been better than deploying to Heroku