An example of building a serverless GraphQL API using NodeJS and Apollo.

As a time-poor father of a 2 year old I apologise in advance for the succinct nature of this README. This project serves as an introduction for me to implementing a GraphQL server using NodeJS and TypeScript.

The goal is to provide details of my CV via serverless GraphQL API.

I'm using NodeJS version 18.15.0 (Hydrogen LTS). I use NVM for version management locally.

I have decided to leverage the Apollo library to quickly get something working. It is open source (so it doesn't cost me anything), yet is used by many in industry. I'm following their documentation to get started.

At this point, I have spun up a quick working example. To run:

npm install
npm run dev

Then navigate to http://localhost:4000 to reach the Sandbox.

This can also be run using the serverless framework as described here.

To demonstrate it running locally and responding to an example query defined in the example-query.json file, run:

npm run serverless-local

To deploy to your AWS account, run:

export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=...
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=...

with relevant credentials, then run:

npm run serverless-deploy

To remove from your AWS account, run:

npm run serverless-remove