How to Execute a Simple GraphQL Query
Summary
GraphQL is on the rise and is currently being used in production level applications by PayPal, Netflix, Shopify, Github, and Airbnb. At this point, my server.js looks like this: The graphqlHTTP module provides a simple way to create an Express server that runs a GraphQL API. The inside structure will look like this: By copying and pasting https://swapi.dev/api/people into the browser, it’s clear that the key “results” provides an array of all the people objects. For sample error troubleshooting, go back to the code file and change res.data.results to just res.data and run the query and check out what it says. The New Stack is a wholly owned subsidiary of Insight Partners, an investor in the following companies mentioned in this article: Postman.
