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New Tutorial: How To Setup GraphQL in a Phoenix Application

April 10, 2019

After watching last week’s video on Absinthe, you may be wondering: How do I setup GraphQL in a Phoenix application?

Wonder no more ‘cuz we’ve got you covered!

Whether you already have a Phoenix app in production or you’re generating a fresh Phoenix app, adding a GraphQL API is both clean and easy thanks to the Absinthe GraphQL toolkit for Elixir.

Starting with a newly-generated Phoenix 1.4 app, in this new tutorial we walk you step-by-step through how to add a GraphQL API layer atop an Ecto data model.