Currently dgraph has been advertised as a native GraphQL database. Judging from the current information, the GraphQL API seems to be for the client rather than the server. I did not find a use case for using GraphQL API on the server side. Ignore the backend and let the client directly operate th…

Hi @pandaslive I think there is a bit of miscommunication about Dgraph and GraphQL here. I shall attempt to clarify. Apologies in advanced if I may sound patronizing. It’s often better to be simple and clear rather than complicated and obscure. API - an API is a way to talk to a program. If you us…

How to use GraphQL API in GraphQL backend server?

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chewxy (chewxy) September 1, 2020, 4:39am 6

That’s false. That’s only true if you are requesting GraphQL via JSON.

You can just extract the "query" field of the JSON and send that to Dgraph.

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How to use GraphQL API in GraphQL backend server?

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