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GraphQL is a powerful query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data. It's an elegant approach that solves many problems typically found with REST APIs. For background, we suggest reading this comparison between GraphQL and REST. GraphQL combined with TypeScript helps you develop better type safety with your GraphQL queries, giving you end-to-end typing. In this chapter, we assume a basic understanding of GraphQL, and focus on how to work with the built-in @nestjs/graphql module. The GraphQLModule can be configured to use Apollo server (with the @nestjs/apollo driver) and Mercurius (with the @nestjs/mercurius). We provide official integrations for these proven GraphQL packages to provide a simple way to use GraphQL with Nest. Nest offers two ways of building GraphQL applications, the code first and the schema first methods. You should choose the one that works best for you.
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- Nest is an MIT-licensed open source project
- GraphQL is a powerful query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data
- Progressive Node.js framework for building efficient and scalable server-side applications
- GraphQL combined with TypeScript helps you develop better type safety with your GraphQL queries, giving you end-to-end typing
- For background, we suggest reading this comparison between GraphQL and REST
- It's an elegant approach that solves many problems typically found with REST APIs
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