One is playing role of our service that we work on
and can be spined up running node server.js
inside of root folder
Second one playing role of external api that we send a request to get data from DB
and can be spined up running npm run json:server
inside of root folder
So that is how we run two servers in parallel
to send some simple GraphQL request go to localhost:4000/graphql
and inside of GraphiQL
- is a tool that helps building queries in dev mode
build your query, query in GraphQL
is always begins with curly brackets
and hits Root query
- is entry point to GraphQL
example of queries:
{
user(id: "40") {
firstName
}
}
or
{
user(id: "40") {
firstName
age,
companyId
}
}