GraphQL Example

Miro Hudak mhudak@enscope.com for PHPUGDD lightning talk in May 2019.

Installation

The application is usual Symfony 4 web application.

To initialize, perform composer install.

Then, as the application uses public IMDB data, it needs to be downloaded and then the downloaded files needs to be moved to seed-source folder in root folder of the project before executing database initialization and seeding.

GraphQL Setup

To enable GraphQL support in your Symfony project, you need to:

• To install GraphQL support, use composer require overblog/graphql-bundle
  • accept all contrib recipes
• To enable GraphiQL, use composer require --dev overblog/graphiql-bundle
  • accept all contrib recipes
  • GraphiQL should now be available on /graphiql
• To enable auto-generation of classes, refer to config/graphql.yaml and enable custom PSR-4 auto-loading in composer.json
  • after editing, dump new autoloader using composer dump-autoload

This should prepare your environment for a basic GraphQL support. Next is to create your own types, fields and resolvers.

Talk Slides & Resources

You can find PDF version of talk slides in dev-docs folder along the database model and Insomnia workspace export.

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