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.