To start your Phoenix server:
- Install dependencies with
mix deps.get - Create and migrate your database with
mix ecto.setup - Install Node.js dependencies with
cd assets && npm install - Start Phoenix endpoint with
mix phx.server
Now you can visit localhost:4000 from your browser.
Ready to run in production? Please check our deployment guides.
absinthe is the core package that implements the GraphQL spec. Simply put, it knows how to transform a GraphQL document and a schema into a JSON result. However, it’s not concerned with how GraphQL documents are transported. That’s where the other two specialized packages come in. The absinthe_plug handles GraphQL documents sent over HTTP to a Phoenix endpoint. And the absinthe_phoenix package supports GraphQL subscriptions over Phoenix channels.
Resolvers are 3-arity functions. Most of the time all you care about is the second argument which is a map of query arguments. Remember, the place query takes an id argument, so we pattern match the second argument to get the id.