@nestjs/apollo
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A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient and scalable server-side applications.
GraphQL is a powerful query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data. It's an elegant approach that solves many problems typically found with REST APIs. For background, we suggest reading this comparison between GraphQL and REST. GraphQL combined with TypeScript helps you develop better type safety with your GraphQL queries, giving you end-to-end typing.
@nestjs/apollo is a package that provides adapters to use Apollo in combination with @nestjs/graphql.
If you are using express HTTP engine, install the following packages:
$ npm i --save @nestjs/graphql @nestjs/apollo apollo-server-express graphql
In case of fastify, you should install apollo-server-fastify instead.
$ npm i --save @nestjs/graphql @nestjs/apollo apollo-server-fastify graphql
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Apollo Server Express is a community-maintained integration of Apollo Server with Express.js. It provides similar functionalities for setting up a GraphQL server but does not integrate with NestJS-specific features like decorators and modules.
TypeGraphQL is a framework for building GraphQL APIs with TypeScript, using classes and decorators. It offers a similar decorator-based approach to defining schemas and resolvers but is not specifically designed for NestJS.
GraphQL Yoga is a fully-featured GraphQL server with focus on easy setup, performance, and great developer experience. It provides a more general-purpose GraphQL server setup and does not integrate with NestJS-specific features.
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The npm package @nestjs/apollo receives a total of 584,795 weekly downloads. As such, @nestjs/apollo popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @nestjs/apollo demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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