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We'll be building a very basic GraphQL API for a blog, written in Elixir using Absinthe.

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Background

Before you start, it's a good idea to have some background into GraphQL in general. Here are a few resources that might be helpful:

• The official GraphQL website
• How to GraphQL (this includes another brief tutorial using Absinthe)

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The Example

The tutorial expects you to have a properly set-up Phoenix application with absinthe and absinthe_plug added to the dependencies.

If you'd like to cheat, you can find the finished code for the tutorial in the Absinthe Example project on GitHub.

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First Step

Let's get started with our first query!