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.

Install

yarn add global create-apollo-server

Generate new GQL API instance

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

Current supported configurations include

• 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]

Contributing

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

Roadmap / What's next

• 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