Build a GraphQL Server using Deno from scratch

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GraphQL is already known for its good parts. GraphQL helps to build super scalable APIs. It reduces coupling between code and data provider. Deno is one of the fastest-growing frameworks/languages to build APIs. By Deepak Vishwakarma.

However, Deno community still new. So there is a very little framework in the Deno community. Some of them are in a very early stage of development.

In this article, author will explain how you can easily integrate the GraphQL nodejs module with Deno. This is a very basic implementation. The article goes over:

  • Introduction
  • Prerequisite
  • Basic project directory setup
  • Velociraptor as script runner
  • Basic server using Oak
  • Basic mock database
  • Create a /GraphQL endpoint to handle GraphQL POST request
  • Create GraphQL schema and resolver
  • Route to handle Query and execute

You will also get the link to repository with the code so you can follow the steps in the article. Interesting read!

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