Overview

Zen is a full stack GraphQL starter kit for building web portals as stateful single-page applications. It combines Angular for the frontend, Nest for the backend, and Prisma for data persistence. The project utilizes Apollo throughout the tech stack to enable modern communication between the client and server via GraphQL. It also includes a fully featured authentication and authorization system.

Features

Nx, Nest, Prisma, Apollo, and Angular: The kit integrates these technologies for a comprehensive development experience.
Everything in TypeScript: All code, including code generation scripts, is written in TypeScript.
End-to-end type safety: Code generation is preconfigured to ensure type safety throughout the project.
100% responsive design: The web portal built with Zen is fully responsive.
100% cross-platform: The code can be developed and deployed on any operating system, including mobile.
Minimal concepts required: Zen aims to simplify development by unifying as many solutions as possible between the frontend and backend.
Visual Studio Code extensions: High-quality VS Code extensions are preconfigured, including Nx Console, Angular Language Service, and Apollo.
GraphQL client for Angular: Apollo Angular is used as the GraphQL client and provides code generation for dependency injection and strict typing.
Schema first GraphQL server: @nestjs/graphql is used to build the GraphQL server with end-to-end type safety.
Prisma integration: The kit includes Pal.js Generator to generate the GraphQL API for Prisma and Pal.js Select to solve the GraphQL N+1 problem.
Purpose-built authentication and authorization modules: Zen provides a full suite of authorization components, guards, and directives for both Angular and Nest.

Summary

Zen is a full stack GraphQL starter kit that combines Angular, Nest, Prisma, and Apollo to provide a comprehensive development experience for building web portals. It offers a minimalistic approach with end-to-end type safety and includes a fully featured authentication and authorization system. With preconfigured Visual Studio Code extensions and a unified approach to frontend and backend solutions, Zen aims to simplify the development process.

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