graphql-anywhere-mongodb Example App

This app combines the following two libraries into one express server that can accept GraphQL requests to MongoDB:

• graphql-anywhere-mongodb
• graphql-anywhere-mongodb-express

Setup

Prerequisites

• Local installation of MongoDB
• (OR) Docker

Clone the app using the following command:

git clone https://github.com/dflor003/graphql-anywhere-mongodb-example

Option 1: Run against local MongoDB

Set the APP_MONGO environment variable in /.env at the root of the project to the connection string to your mongo instance.

Then start the app by running:

npm run start:dev

Option 2: Run with Docker

Ensure you have a recent version of docker and have access to the docker-compose command and then run the following command:

npm run start:docker

Navigate to the app

Once the app is running, navigate to the app at http://localhost:3000.

Sample Data

You can test it out using this sample dataset or any local dataset you have.

If you go for a local collection, do be sure to update the whitelist variable in server.ts with the name(s) of the collection(s) you are querying or get rid of the whitelist value altogether.