GraphQL Plug

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plug_graphql is a Plug integration for the GraphQL Elixir implementation of Facebook’s GraphQL.

This Plug allows you to easily mount a GraphQL endpoint in Phoenix. This example project shows you how:

Installation

  1. Make a new Phoenix app, or add it to your existing app.

    mix phoenix.new hello_graphql
    cd hello_graphql
    git clone https://github.com/graphql-elixir/hello_graphql_phoenix
  2. Add plug_graphql to your list of dependencies and applications in mix.exs and install the package with mix deps.get.

    def application do
      # Add the application to your list of applications.
      # This will ensure that it will be included in a release.
      [applications: [:logger, :plug_graphql]]
    end
    
    def deps do
      [{:plug_graphql, "~> 0.3.1"}]
    end

Usage

  1. Define a simple schema in web/graphql/test_schema.ex:

    defmodule TestSchema do
      def schema do
        %GraphQL.Schema{
          query: %GraphQL.Type.ObjectType{
            name: "Hello",
            fields: %{
              greeting: %{
                type: %GraphQL.Type.String{},
                args: %{
                  name: %{
                    type: %GraphQL.Type.String{}
                  }
                },
                resolve: {TestSchema, :greeting}
              }
            }
          }
        }
      end
    
      def greeting(_, %{name: name}, _), do: "Hello, #{name}!"
      def greeting(_, _, _), do: "Hello, world!"
    end
  2. Your api pipeline should have this as a minimum:

    pipeline :api do
      plug :accepts, ["json"]
    end
  3. Mount the GraphQL endpoint as follows:

    scope "/api" do
      pipe_through :api
    
      forward "/", GraphQL.Plug, schema: {TestSchema, :schema}
    end
  4. Start Phoenix

    mix phoenix.server
  5. Open your browser to http://localhost:4000/api?query={greeting} and you should see something like this:

    {
      "data": {
        "greeting": "Hello, world!"
      }
    }

Contributions

This is pretty early days, the GraphQL Elixir ecosystem needs a lot more work to be useful.

However we can’t get there without your help, so any questions, bug reports, feedback, feature requests and/or PRs are most welcome!

Acknowledgements

Thanks and appreciation goes to the following contributors for PRs, discussions, answering many questions and providing helpful feedback:

Thanks also to everyone who has submitted PRs, logged issues, given feedback or asked questions.