So, today we’re going to write a small GraphQL server. I’m not going to try to persuade you to drop everything and adopt GraphQL — but if you’re curious about what this stuff looks like today and how it works, read on.

Setup an HTTP Server

GraphiQL: GraphQL’s Killer App

Maybe you haven’t heard of GraphQL. It’s a query language for front-end engineers to retrieve data from…

Browsing the GraphQL specification, you might stumble into the section on variables and wonder, “Why on earth GraphQL does have variables?”

The spec quietly mentions the rationale, and if you read too fast you might miss it:

The word “directive” might sound quite technical and maybe a bit scary, but we’re going to take this time to explore GraphQL directives and show that they’re not really all that bad.

Use Popular APIs with GraphQL, now on NPM