eulier1 / express-graphql-test

GraphQL Server in an Express Web Server

Eulier's Notes

Deep nested objects are very common in E-commerce applications or apps that scale with some technical debt. So making GraphQL a perfect candidate.

It's actually amazing how easy is to query complex data structures for exactly the data that we want.

Our API is organized in TYPES and FIELDS rather than ENDPOINTS, which makes querying multiple endpoints for combining data, unnecesary, like in a RESTful API.

Scalabiity

So as our project get’s larger, so instead of keep everything in one file. How do we :

• Break down our schema into multiple files?.
• Structure our project based on functionality?
• Organize our server when we need to add more complex logic to fetch our data?

GraphQL Tools greatly help us here. An open source set of utilties that simplify how we make graphql server.

It used under the hood by Apollo GraphQL framework, but it availabe as a standalone package.

Since Apollo is a service company of graphql, is not good idea to fully commit to their services.