Create-apollo-server NPM

Create Apollo Server

The idea behind this library is to provide a simple way to bootstrap a new graphQL server instance.

Inspired by by projects like create-react-app and create-react-native-app this project aims to provide a similar service.

Unlike the before mentioned projects create-apollo-server doesn't hide the implementation and comes without an eject command

After initializing a new instance of a graphQL server all dependencies are visible in the package.json file.

All the configuration parameters are visible through a .env file that gets auto-generated and can be changed afterwards.

yarn add global create-apollo-server

create-apollo-server init [project-name]

Follow instructions

cd [project-name] && yarn start

go to localhost:[port]/[gaphiql path] and start investigating the generated schema

The resulting schema is the same as the one used in the example here https://github.com/apollographql/frontpage-server

GraphQL API port: default (8080)
GraphQL API path: default (graphql)
Graphiql interface path: default (graphiql)
Add dataloader to the list of dependencies: default (true)
Support GraphQL subscriptions: default (true)
GraphQL subscription server port: default (8090) only if subscriptions support = true
Subscription server path: default (/) only if subscriptions support = true
Subscriptions engine: default (pubsub) only if subscriptions support = true

This is project is a living thing and it needs caring, if you wan to contribute, please do by submitting PRs, issues...

Add data source support (mySQL, Postegrsql, REST)
Add support for koa, hapi, restify...
Add specs / tests
Deploy to launchpad
Typescript / Flow
Improving the codebase in general
init-advanced, an init command to generate an instance for users with more advanced needs

7 years ago

7 years ago