graphile-build is the core of Graphile Engine. It provides a framework to build high-performance extensible GraphQL APIs by combining plugins and using advanced query look-ahead features. Each plugin typically has its own small purpose (such as implementing the Node interface, adding query: Query to mutation payloads, or watching an external source for schema changes) and by combining these plugins together you get a large, powerful, and manageable GraphQL schema. Plugins enable you to make broad changes to your GraphQL schema with minimal code and without sacrificing performance.

An example of an application built on graphile-build is PostGraphile which with one command connects to your PostgreSQL database and provides a full highly performant standards-compliant GraphQL API. The separate graphile-build-pg module contains the plugins that are specific to PostgreSQL support (graphile-build itself does not know about databases).

To help us develop this software sustainably, we ask all individuals and businesses that use it to help support its ongoing maintenance and development via sponsorship.

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For in-depth documentation about graphile-build, please see the graphile documentation website at graphile.org. The below just serves as a limited quick-reference for people already familiar with the library.

Please note: rather than using the raw plugin interface that graphile-build exposes, you may want to use the helpers in the graphile-utils module.