Xaitsnue-Community-Dictionary-Project/graphql

Querying words and their variants basic kit!

Setting up Apollo server on your local machine

1. Clone this repository onto your machine and open the folder in VS Code

2. npm init: Initialize the node project (run this command and below in the terminal)

3. Edit newly created package.json file: add "start": "node index.js" into scipts and "type": "module" outside

4. npm install @apollo/server graphql: Install necessary packages

5. npm start: Run this to start the server and open the localhost (http://localhost:2409)

• graphql : The library that implements the core GraphQL parsing and execution algorithms.
• @apollo/server : The Apollo GraphQL server

The tutorial can be also found here.

Example query: looking up word "fox"

Paste this query into Operation tab:

query ExampleQuery($englishName: String!) {
  animal(english: $englishName) {
    xaitsnue
    grammar
    speakers
    variant
    other_info
    semantic_domain
  }
}

Hit the button Example Query to run the query. The result will show in the Response tab on the right:

{
  "data": {
    "animal": {
      "xaitsnue": "'asá",
      "grammar": "noun",
      "speakers": "AT, JK, JB, JD, EK",
      "variant": null,
      "other_info": null,
      "semantic_domain": "mammal"
    }
  }
}