Creating a GraphQL API while utilizing your REST API

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SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App
With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
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  • apollo-server

    🌍  Spec-compliant and production ready JavaScript GraphQL server that lets you develop in a schema-first way. Built for Express, Connect, Hapi, Koa, and more.

    • All we really need to do here is extend RESTDataSource to get access to in-memory caching, HTTP helper functions, and pagination. To learn more visit apollo-datasource-rest.

  • covid-graphql

    Learning tool to showcase REST to GraphQL for blog posts

    • We have created a GraphQL API from scratch, built a REST service data source to leverage our existing services, and got to utilize the playground to start to see some of those GraphQL perks. If you got lost at any point here is the repository code on the part1 branch. You also can reference the playground hosted on Heroku to try out some queries.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • dotenv

    Loads environment variables from .env for nodejs projects.

    • Project setup has some optional steps such as using nodemon to reload our app for us, and dotenv to load environment variables. This would be where you would add in the tools you prefer to work with in JavaScript.

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