GraphQL 101 Quick Start

GraphQL is the new database management from the Facebook team, which now outsourced. This article is a quick reference from what I’ve learned about it with autodidact. My article may miss some of the concepts as I can’t find a proper “for dummies” tutorial about GraphQL out there but should be sufficient for beginners as a stepping stone for more advanced concepts.

This GraphQL article is made using Graphcool as Server As A Service, and Apollo for the plugins. I’ll try to steer clear from a specific platform implementation, and just focused on GraphQL queries and mutations, as well as how to implement it in Apollo client. Feel free to skip over some steps if you’ve already done it.

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