gql-rs

A basic GraphQL server for Rust.

Specs TBC...

Goals

• Learn the following by building with:
  • The tide crate
  • The async-std crate
  • The async-graphql crate & creating mutations and queries
  • Diesel ORM & recap on relational databases
  • tracing crate

Prerequisites

• Rust
• Docker
• Docker Compose

Database setup

Refer to https://diesel.rs/guides/getting-started/ for more information.

• Run cargo install diesel_cli
• Run make db-start which is basically docker-compose up -d
• Run diesel setup
• The database should now be ready to connect to.

Development

• make run and then http://localhost:5050/graphiql (which should be pointing to http://localhost:5050/query)
• Enter queries and mutations in the GraphiQL interface and see the results in the console.