title: ‌Introduction To GraphQL Server With Golang published: false description: Introduction to GraphQL Server with Golang and Gqlgen. tags: graphql, go, api, gqlgen

Table Of Contents

• Table Of Contents
  • How to Run The Project
  • Motivation
    • What is a GraphQL server?
    • Schema-Driven Development
  • Getting started
    • Project Setup
    • Defining Our Schema
  • Queries
    • What Is A Query
    • Simple Query
  • Mutations
    • What Is A Mutation
    • A Simple Mutation
  • Database
    • Setup MySQL
    • Models and migrations
  • Create and Retrieve Links
    • CreateLinks
    • Links Query
  • Authentication
    • JWT
    • Setup
      • Generating and Parsing JWT Tokens
      • User Signup and Login Functionality
      • Authentication Middleware
  • Continue Implementing schema
    • CreateUser
    • Login
    • RefreshToken
    • Completing Our App
  • Summary
    • Further Steps

How to Run The Project

First start mysql server with docker:

docker run -p 3306:3306 --name mysql -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=dbpass -e MYSQL_DATABASE=hackernews -d mysql:latest

Then create a Table names hackernews for our app:

docker exec -it mysql bash
mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE hackernews;

finally run the server:

go run server/server.go

Now navigate to https://localhost:8080 you can see graphiql playground and query the graphql server.

Tutorial

to see the latest version of tutorial visit https://www.howtographql.com/graphql-go/0-introduction/