CREATE A SIMPLE GRAPHQL API
How to create a very simple GRAPHQL API with AWS AppSync.
Log into AWS and open the “AWS APPSYNC” module. This is where we will create an APPSYNC API to be used later.
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1. Click the orange Create API in the upper right hand corner of the page.
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2. Click “Create with wizard” in order to build a very simple GraphQL API. AWS does much of the work for you this way.
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3. Enter in “firstName”, “lastName” fields and name the api model “testModel”.
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4. Once you hit “Start”, you will enter the name of your app as “graphQLTest”
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5. Click “Start“ to begin the wizard. It will open to the model edit screen.
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6. You will leave everything the same and hit “create”.
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7. Once again, you will leave everything the same and hit “create”. This time, after the dynamodb builds,
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8. Click on the orange array, and choose “createMyModelType” in order to generate the model.
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9. Next click the orange array about and choose “createMyModelType”, in order to insert a record into this new dynamoDB table.
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10. Now your api is generated. We need to get the information to call it. Next, click on the “Settings” tab.
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11. Write down the API URL, as well as the api key listed under “API Keys”.
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| Now you have a GRAPHQL Api..pretty simple eh? You can call it using any language you wish. | |