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Technical Maintenance Guide

This guide covers the technical aspects of maintaining and developing the Zabbix GraphQL API.

🛠️ Development & Maintenance Tasks

Code Generation

The project uses GraphQL Codegen to generate TypeScript types from the GraphQL schema. This ensures type safety and consistency between the schema and the implementation.

  • Configuration: codegen.ts
  • Generated Output: src/schema/generated/graphql.ts

How to Regenerate Types

Whenever you modify any .graphql files in the schema/ directory, you must regenerate the TypeScript types:

npm run codegen

Testing

We use Jest for unit and integration testing.

  • Test Directory: src/test/
  • Execution:
    npm run test
    

Adding New Tests

  • Location: Place new test files in src/test/ with the .test.ts extension.
  • Coverage: Ensure you cover both successful operations and error scenarios.
  • Best Practice: If you find a bug, first create a reproduction test in src/test/ to verify the fix.

🔄 Updating Dependencies

To keep the project secure and up-to-date:

  1. Check for updates: npm outdated
  2. Update packages: npm update
  3. Verify with tests: npm run test

🐳 Docker Image Maintenance

The Dockerfile uses a multi-stage build to keep the production image small and secure.

  • Base Image: Node 24 (LTS)
  • Build Argument: API_VERSION (used to embed the version into the image)

To build a fresh image locally:

docker build -t zabbix-graphql-api --build-arg API_VERSION=$(git describe --tags --always) .

Related Reference: Project Configuration Reference Related Cookbook: Extending the Schema