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Do you want to create a GraphQL API with Elixir?

Here are all the resources you need to get started.

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Absinthe GraphQL

@absinthegraphql is THE GraphQL library you want to use. It is an amazing toolkit that implements the GraphQL specification in an idiomatic Elixir style.

absinthe-graphql.org

Absinthe allows you to define schemas:

- define the data entities, queries, mutations, and subscriptions
- supports custom scalars
- allows deprecating definitions

Absinthe allows you to parse and evaluate documents:

- can execute any query, mutation, or subscription
- allows variable definitions
- supports complexity analysis
- support introspection

It also gives you a cool graphical interface to explore the API: graphiql

You can start learning it from the creator of Absinthe, Ben Wilson, here:

howtographql.com/graphql-elixir…

Or you can get the book that Bruce Williams and Ben Wilson wrote about it:

pragprog.com/titles/wwgraph…

There are more tutorials if you want to dig deeper, like this one from @diamondgfx

timber.io/blog/a-gentle-…

This one talks about authentication and authorization, from @scottybytesback

shamil614.github.io/programming/20…

The official documentation is here:

hexdocs.pm/absinthe/insta…

And here is the github repository:

github.com/absinthe-graph…

That's it.

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