SpaceX-GraphQL

Angular app used to view data on SpaceX launches, rockets, and other data. Public API data fetched with GraphQL and Apollo

Technologies used

UI

Angular 9 with Angular Material and FontAwesome icons

API

Public SpaceX GraphQL API. Apollo for Angular used to generate the services

Docker

Used just for users who want to run the app locally without installing all the npm packages

Firebase

Used to host the app on a cloud service

Running the app

There are a few ways that you can run this app. Here are the options (detailed instructions below):

1. View the built app on Firebase
2. Run the app via Docker 🐋
3. Clone the repo and run locally

Firebase

View the built app on Firebase

Docker

• Clone the repo
• Make sure Docker is installed
• Note: this will take some time for all the packages to install and Angular to compile everyhting the first time, but it should be much faster after that
• From the root of the project in a command line, run:

    cd ./spacex-graphql
    docker build -t SOME_UNIQUE_NAME .
    docker run -d -p 4201:4200 --rm SOME_UNIQUE_NAME

• Navigate to localhost:4201 and the app should be running
• To shut the app down, run:

docker stop SOME_UNIQUE_NAME

Locally

• Clone the repo
• Make sure Node and the Angular CLI are installed
• From the root of the project in a command line, run:

    cd ./spacex-graphql/src
    npm i
    ng s -o