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Creating our GraphQL schema

With our database code in place, we are now ready to turn our attention to writing our GraphQL server. One of the earliest decisions I took when writing the sample code for this chapter was that we would simplify the process of writing our code as much as possible. If we look at a reference sample that Facebook posted, we will find that the code can be tediously long-winded:

import {  graphql,  GraphQLSchema,  GraphQLObjectType,  GraphQLString} from 'graphql';var schema = new GraphQLSchema({  query: new GraphQLObjectType({    name: 'RootQueryType',    fields: {      hello: {        type: GraphQLString,        resolve() {          return 'world';        }      }    }  })});

This example is from https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js. We can see that we have a lot of ...