Setting up a GraphQL server in node.js

I recently needed to create a GraphQL schema quickly and decided to create this quick guide to help me next time I needed to do something similar

GraphQL

GraphQL provides an entirely different paradigm from REST APIs. Rather than needing to write a different endpoint / controller to return different data, GraphQL provides clients the opportunity to specify the data they want. GraphQL then returns the specificly request datasets.

Schema

Here is a sample GraphQL schema containing and organisation and a user

Sample Data

Sample data is created using in JSON format

Root Value

The following value accessors are required to retrieve data from the server

Starting up the server

Here is how the GraphQL server is setup with a node.js express app.

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