Using GraphQL and Docker to serve reference data with no coding

Demo of how reference data services can be created and deployed with no coding, using GraphQL and docker.

Running the demo

1. Build the docker image

1. Clone or download this repo
2. Run

docker build -t graphqlref .

2. Start the server

docker run --rm -it -p 5000:5000  graphqlref

You can press Ctrl+C to shutdown and clean up the image

3. Access the server

1. Access the webased GUI at http://localhost:5000/graphiql
2. Access the GraphQL endpint at http://localhost:5000/graphql

For example:

curl -X POST 'http://localhost:5000/graphql' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"query":"query AirportsInNZ {\n  country(countryCode: \"NZ\") {\n    airports {\n      nodes {\n        iataCode\n        name\n        elevation\n      }\n    }\n  }\n}\n","variables":null,"operationName":"AirportsInNZ"}' 

License

The code in this repo is released under the Apache 2.0 License.

The sample data set used in this demo is built from the awesome OpenFlights data set. NOTE: This data is not under the Apache 2.0 license nor, is it for commercial and navigation use. See https://openflights.org/data.html#license for more details