As a child, I always dreamed of writing solely CRUD operations and HTTP APIs will just be magically available, now I can finally achieve this with graphql.

This project demonstrates how to use Flask + Flask-GraphQL to make a simple web app with simple CRUD operations, also includes some of the most basic tests.

Setup everything and run the flask app

On a Mac of course.

brew install python3
pip install -U virtualenv virtualenvwrapper
mkvirtualenv graphene --python=python3
pip install -U -r requirements-dev.txt
mysql -uroot -e 'create database graphene_boilerplate'
py.test -s
./shell
> db.create_all()
> exit
export FLASK_APP=graphene_boilerplate/app.py
flask run --reload --port 5000

Now open up http://localhost:5000/graphql to play with GraphQL, see below for some example queries:

To create a Item:

mutation see_if_create_works {
  createItem(key: "whatever", value: "{\"foo\": \"bar\"}") {
    ok
    item {
      id_
      key
      value
    }
  }
}

To list all Item:

query {
  allItems {
    edges {
      node {
        id_
        key
        value
      }
    }
  }
}