Spoke Architecture Overview (WIP)

Spoke Overview

Organized by what technology, what that tech is and does in this project and where it is found in the code base

The parts and what they do:

	What it is/does in this project	Where you'll find it in the code
React	Frontend
Apollo	Comes in Client and Server flavors. Talks to React and GraphQL. Use to inject responses to GraphQL queries and mutations into React component "data" prop. Caches query results.	See mapMutationsToProps and mapQueriesToProps, gql, component.props.data
GraphQL	Query language created by Facebook. Browse the GraphQL schema at http://localhost:3000/graphql "Mutations" = functions that perform custom create, update, delete operations. "Queries" = read operations. In schema, define types and arguments and map fields to their resolver functions.	. See https://github.com/MoveOnOrg/Spoke/tree/master/src/server/api for schemas and custom function https://github.com/MoveOnOrg/Spoke/blob/master/src/server/api/lib/utils.js#L3 that maps fields from RethinkDB models to GraphQL schemata
RethinkDB	Document-based database. Uses its own query language, ReQL
Thinky	ORM for RethinkDB	https://github.com/MoveOnOrg/Spoke/tree/master/src/server/models
Postgres (post-migration)	Relational database
Knex (post-migration)	ORM
Express	Lightweight Node.js app framework. Backend routing.	https://github.com/MoveOnOrg/Spoke/blob/master/src/server/index.js
Auth0	Authentication API, with Passport middleware
Twilio
Babel
Webpack
npm
(deployment)