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Build a GraphQL API Using Rust
Leverage the axum web framework
This guide will teach you how to build a powerful GraphQL API with Rust. You will use Rust and a few well-known libraries to create an HTTP server, add GraphQL support, and even implement a small API. After that, you will learn how to make this service ready for production by adding tracing and metrics, and then you will put everything inside a Docker container, ready to deploy.
GraphQL is a vital API technology these days. Facebook, Netflix, Spotify, Shopify, and many more prominent tech companies build and maintain such an API. Especially federated GraphQL APIs (these are APIs with an API gateway and many individual microservices composing one large supergraph) bring a lot of flexibility to the table. Teams can work independently while contributing to one single API surface that makes it easy for clients to use any backend functionality they might need at one single endpoint, all while being flexible enough only to query the data they really need.
The chances are high that you will encounter a task to implement a GraphQL API one day. Perhaps you already build GraphQL APIs and are looking for more exciting ways to build them. In any of these cases, this guide is for you.
(A quick note: If you get stuck while going through this guide, you can find the full code…
