Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe

Running Our Query with GraphiQL

GraphiQL is “an in-browser IDE for exploring GraphQL,” and to make things easy for the user, Absinthe integrates with three versions of GraphiQL: the official interface,^[10] an advanced version,^[11] and GraphQL Playground.^[12] All three are built in to the absinthe_plug^[13] package and ready to go with just a little configuration.

The absinthe_plug dependency is already in our mix.exs file from the initial setup, but we need to now configure the Phoenix router to use it. Replace the existing "/" scope with the following block:

02-chp.schema/2-object/lib/plate_slate_web/router.ex

scope "/" do
  pipe_through :api

  forward "/api", Absinthe.Plug,
    schema: PlateSlateWeb.Schema

  forward "/graphiql" ...