FaunaDB Graphql Starter Example -- The FaunaDB Guestbook

This simple Guestbook SPA example shows you how to use FaunaDB's GraphQL endpoint in your Next.js project. [Live demo].

• Why FaunaDB
• How To Use This Template
  • Use create-next-app
  • Download This Template Manually
  • Run Locally
  • Deploy

Why FaunaDB

By importing a .gql or .graphql schema into FaunaDB (see our sample schema file), FaunaDB will generate required Indexes and GraphQL resolvers for you -- hands free 👐 (some limitations exist).

How To Use This Template

You can start with this template using create-next-app or by downloading the repository manually.

To use a live FaunaDB database, create one and import this example's schema.gql file using the FaunaDB console. Create a client secret, then paste it into next.config.js.

Use create-next-app

Download create-next-app to bootstrap the example:

npm install -g create-next-app
create-next-app --example with-graphql-faunadb

Download This Template Manually

Download the example or clone the repo:

curl https://codeload.github.com/zeit/next.js/tar.gz/canary | tar -xz --strip=2 next.js-canary/examples/with-graphql-faunadb
cd with-graphql-faunadb

Run Locally

Install, then run the development server:

npm install
now dev

Make sure to leave us a guestbook message in our live demo! 😉

Deploy

Deploy it to the cloud with now! Install now on your development machine before proceeding.

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