Setting up Apollo server on your local machine

1. Clone this repository onto your machine and open the folder in VS Code

2. npm init: Initialize the node project (run this command and below in the terminal)

3. Edit newly created package.json file: add "start": "node index.js" into scipts and "type": "module" outside

4. npm install @apollo/server graphql: Install necessary packages

5. npm start: Run this to start the server and open the localhost (http://localhost:2409)

• graphql : The library that implements the core GraphQL parsing and execution algorithms.
• @apollo/server : The Apollo GraphQL server

The tutorial can be also found here.

Example query: looking up word "fox"

Paste this query into Operation tab:

query ExampleQuery($englishName: String!) {
  animal(english: $englishName) {
    xaitsnue
    grammar
    speakers
    variant
    other_info
    semantic_domain
  }
}

Hit the button Example Query to run the query. The result will show in the Response tab on the right:

{
  "data": {
    "animal": {
      "xaitsnue": "'asá",
      "grammar": "noun",
      "speakers": "AT, JK, JB, JD, EK",
      "variant": null,
      "other_info": null,
      "semantic_domain": "mammal"
    }
  }
}