This example shows how to implement a GraphQL server with TypeScript with the following stack:
- Apollo Server: HTTP server for GraphQL APIs
- GraphQL Nexus: GraphQL schema definition and resolver implementation
- Prisma Client: Databases access (ORM)
- Prisma Migrate: Database migrations
- SQLite: Local, file-based SQL database
- Getting Started
- Using the GraphQL API
- Evolving the app
- Switch to another database (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server)
- Next steps
Download this example:
curl https://codeload.github.com/prisma/prisma-examples/tar.gz/latest | tar -xz --strip=2 prisma-examples-latest/typescript/graphql
Install npm dependencies:
cd graphql
npm install
Alternative: Clone the entire repo
Clone this repository:
git clone git@github.com:prisma/prisma-examples.git --depth=1
Install npm dependencies:
cd prisma-examples/typescript/graphql
npm install
Run the following command to create your SQLite database file. This also creates the User and Post tables that are defined in prisma/schema.prisma:
npx prisma migrate dev --name init
Now, seed the database with the sample data in prisma/seed.ts by running the following command:
npx prisma db seed --preview-feature
Launch your GraphQL server with this command:
npm run dev
Navigate to http://localhost:4000 in your browser to explore the API of your GraphQL server in a GraphQL Playground.
The schema that specifies the API operations of your GraphQL server is defined in ./schema.graphql. Below are a number of operations that you can send to the API using the GraphQL Playground.
Feel free to adjust any operation by adding or removing fields. The GraphQL Playground helps you with its auto-completion and query validation features.
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