GraphQL Experiment - Apollo + Next.js

[lauragift21]

Research how to use apollo as the primary data source for Next.js apps.

Acceptance Criteria

• We have a demo app showing how to work with Apollo and Next.js with local data and external data sources.

Task

• Set up a demo project with Apollo and Next.js
• Convert external rest api into graphql using apollo data source

[lauragift21]

Notes from GraphQL Experiment

Why?

We want to have a single source of truth for all of the local and remote data in our application.

Analysis

How do we use demo.ckan.org API with Apollo?

• It's easy to adopt Apollo incrementally, meaning you can set it up alongside an existing solution (such as a REST API) and migrate functionality at your convenience.

• Apollo provides a DataSource class that we can extend to handle interaction logic for a particular type of data source that we can use to create a new data source for GraphQL API which we can then consume on the client-side.

connect a Rest API (demo.ckan.org) with apollo-datasource-rest-> Consume on the frontend

[anuveyatsu]

Closing this as FIXED. See #29 and #32 for how we have implemented this.