Apollo Server: An Introduction to the Leading GraphQL Server

Getting started with Apollo Server and Graph Manager to serve and manage your Data Graph

Apollo Server: The community driven JavaScript GraphQL Server

Apollo Server is a spec-compliant GraphQL server implementation written in JavaScript. It is today the industry standard GraphQL solution, and therefore the recommended option if you are considering a Data Graph solution for production apps.

This article focusses on two of the packages in the Apollo ecosystem: Apollo Server and Apollo Graph Manager. Apollo Server is an open source package used to build and run your GraphQL API, whereas Apollo Graph Manager is a dashboard hosted by Apollo you can use to manage, monitor and test your graphs. Graph Manager is an opt-in product that some may question the relevance of, being a centralised service in a world where open source software is becoming more prominent. But nonetheless, the service does offer some very useful insights into your server that this piece introduces.

Apollo Server and Graph Manager are the key tools used to set up and monitor your Data Graph, and are all that’s needed to get started serving a GraphQL API in production. We will document the setup process…