A GraphQL Experiment

Query an external REST API that returns big, hard to manage XML files and format response into JSON

Prerequisites

• An API key from https://www.goodreads.com/
• NodeJS >= v8.1.5
• yarn [optional]

Getting started

1. Checkout this repository
2. run yarn or npm install
3. execute server using APIKEY=<goodreads api key> node serve.js
4. Play around with API on localhost:4000/graphql

Examples

Query an author's name

query {
  author(id: 4432) {
    name
  }
}

Query an author's books

query {
  author(id: 4432) {
    books { isbn, title }
  }
}