README.md

TAOAPI

Taoapi GraphQL is a GraphQL API for the Tao Te Ching which is a classical chinese text on philosophy written around 400 BC by Laozi, very useful for people of all times. In a general tend it deals with the ideas of action without intention, naturalness, simplicity, spontaneity, compassion, frugality and humility.

Running locally

This repoistory can be cloned.

The dependencies can be installed and a development server started, through these commands.

$ yan
$ yarn dev

Everything should work as expected. You may be seeing a message in your terminal with the following URL.

http://localhost:4000/graphql

The API is now available and you can access a GraphQL playground to read over the API schema and test out some queries.

query {
  book {
    number
    content {
      EN
    }
  }
}

Some queries.

query {
  chapter(number: "1") {
    content {
      EN
    }
  }
}

Generate Resolvers Types

GraphQL Code Generator generates TypeScript types for your GraphQL API's resolvers.

After modifying the schema, simply type the following command.

$ yarn generate