Instant GraphQL APIs for Your Databases

Auto-generate GraphQL APIs for your databases.

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Overview

I talked about generating REST APIs in 5 minutes and using GraphQL to serve machine learning models in earlier articles. GraphQL, by Facebook, is gaining popularity among developers. In this article let’s explore open-source platforms that can help us automatically generate GraphQL APIs for databases.

CRUD Rest APIs in 5 Minutes Using Flask

Serving ML Model using GraphQL Subscription

Setting up a PostgreSQL Database

Let’s set up a PostgreSQL database with data for demonstration purposes.

docker-compose

I am going to use the following docker-compose.yml to set up PostgreSQL and adminer to manage the database.