Visual Design of GraphQL Data: A Practical Introduction with Legacy Data and Neo4j

© Thomas Frisendal 2018

Thomas FrisendalVisual Design of GraphQL Datahttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3904-9_12

12. Using GraphQL with a New Graph Database

Thomas Frisendal¹ 

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Copenhagen S, Denmark

 

Design Goals of the Neo4j-GraphQL Integration

What does a graph solution for a GraphQL API look like?

I can best answer this question by looking at the Neo4j-GraphQL plugin. Instead of repeating what Will Lyon says in his video, I have decided to briefly summarize a recent blog post from March 2018, also by Will Lyon of Neo4j. It’s entitled “Five Common GraphQL Problems and How Neo4j-GraphQL Aims To Solve Them¹” (see https://blog.grandstack.io/five-common-graphql-problems-and-how-neo4j-graphql-aims-to-solve-them-e9a8999c8d43 ).

Obviously, there are ...