How to create a simple GraphQL API and expose a query in Node.js using Nest.js

If you want to create a simple GraphQL API following the code first approach using Nestjs but you don’t know where to start, in this quick tips episode, you will learn how.

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00:00 Topics for the video
00:17 Channel Intro
00:41 What we will create for this video
01:01 Install the Nestjs CLI
01:16 Create a new app using the Nestjs CLI
01:24 Install required packages for GraphQL
01:45 Steps for creating the GraphQL API
02:23 Create a Nestjs module
02:33 Create an object type for the GraphQL API
03:10 Create a Nestjs service
03:17 The JSON file with the data for our app
03:23 Add a method to the service to return quizzes
03:44 Create a Nestjs resolver for exposing our GraphQL queries and mutations
03:51 Adding a simple query to the GrapQL API
04:14 Configure the GraphQL module
04:27 Start the server
04:30 Open the GraphQL playground in the browser
04:40 Type a simple query and execute it
04:59 Add some other fields to the query
05:09 Create a request in Postman
05:25 Configure it for GraphQL and test a query
05:39 Se the results
05:49 Query for more fields
06:01 Coming next!
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