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Apollo Server is an open-source, spec-compliant GraphQL server that's compatible with any GraphQL client, including Apollo Client. It's the best way to build a production-ready, self-documenting GraphQL API that can use data from any source.
- Get Started
Want to learn how to modularize and scale a GraphQL API?...
- Directives
Configure GraphQL types, fields, and arguments. If you want...
- Migrating to Apollo Server 4
Join API innovators, GraphQL experts, and AI trailblazers on...
- Custom Scalars
The GraphQL specification includes default scalar types Int,...
- Lambda
1 service: apollo-lambda 2 provider: 3 name: aws 4 runtime:...
- Integrations
Are you looking to build a new integration? Or help maintain...
- Mocking
Mocking enables Apollo Server to return simulated data for...
- expressMiddleware
This API reference documents Apollo Server 4's Express...
- Get Started
- Create a new project. From your preferred development directory, create a directory for a new project and cd into it: 1 mkdir graphql-server-example.
- Install dependencies. Applications that run Apollo Server require two top-level dependencies: graphql (also known as graphql-js) is the library that implements the core GraphQL parsing and execution algorithms.
- Define your GraphQL schema. ⓘ NOTE. The code blocks below use TypeScript by default. You can use the dropdown menu above each code block to switch to JavaScript.
- Define your data set. Now that we've defined the structure of our data, we can define the data itself. Apollo Server can fetch data from any source you connect to (including a database, a REST API, a static object storage service, or even another GraphQL server).
- What Is Grapql?
- What Is Apollo Server?
- Install Apollo Server & GraphQL
- Conclusion
GraphQLis a language for querying data. Unlike most query languages (such as SQL), you don’t use GraphQL to query a particular type of data store (such as a MySQL database). Instead, you use GraphQL to query data from any number of different sources.
Apollo Serveris an open-source, spec-compliant GraphQL server that's compatible with any GraphQL client, including Apollo Client. It's the best way to build a production-ready, self-documenting GraphQL API that can use data from any source.
Install Apollo to create your API. In particular, by using the Apollo Server package, which is the server package within the Apollo ecosystem. Apollo Server allows us to create a production-ready, self-documenting, GraphQL API in Node applications. It's really easy to get started with and incrementally adaptable. We'll install the Express variation...
In this short tutorial, we looked at how to install the GraphQL server and Apollo Server and all additional dependencies. We also saw how to access A Apollo Graphql Sandbox by running your local nodemon server. To know more about creating a GraphQL schema with the GraphQL JS Library follow up to read this article (published next week): How to Creat...
Apollo Server is an open-source, spec-compliant GraphQL server that's compatible with any GraphQL client, including Apollo Client. It's the best way to build a production-ready, self-documenting GraphQL API that can use data from any source.
Connect any GraphQL API to Apollo's cloud platform to enable powerful features like metrics reporting, schema validation, and the Explorer IDE. Connect your API to GraphOS ›. 🚀 A fully-featured, production ready caching GraphQL client for every UI framework and GraphQL server.
:rocket: A fully-featured, production ready caching GraphQL client for every UI framework and GraphQL server. - apollographql/apollo-client
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Apollo Client is a fully-featured caching GraphQL client with integrations for React, Angular, and more. It allows you to easily build UI components that fetch data via GraphQL.
