json-graphql-server VS graphql-directive-rest

Before jumping into the interface, the first task in my To-Do list was to create an API able to serve the data in the structure that I would need them. I didn't need to create it from scratch using a real database since it wouldn't be necessary to insert/update or delete any data — I just needed an API returning all the data that I would use. To achieve that, I used the awesome package json-graphql-server which does an amazing job creating a GraphQL API with static data that can be stored in a simple JSON file on the server — I just realize that the package name does a pretty good job describing it.

In this case, @rest is a custom directive that can be applied to a query. In the above example, we've supplied only one argument to the directive (endpoint). StepZen uses this directive to write the resolver that handles the getArticles query so that it can connect this query to data from the supplied REST endpoint. StepZen has a similar directive, @dbquery, for connecting a database backend. There are also community implementations of a similar @rest directive.