A walk in GraphQL

Day 1 exercise - Python

Read the instructions on the Day 1 exercise definition

Run the server

This exercise is prepared to work with Python 3, with SQLite and SQAlchemy as ORM

  1. open a terminal
  2. go to the Python exercise directory
  3. run [pip][pip3] install virtualenv to install it. It is used to create isolated Python environments
  4. run virtualenv venv to create the venv environment
  5. Activate virtual environment:
    • On Windows run venv\Scripts\activate.bat (deactivate.bat to deactivate the environment).
    • On Linux run source env/bin/activate (deactivate to deactivate the environment)
  6. run [pip][pip3] install -r requirements.txt to install the needes packages if you didn’t before
  7. run uvicorn app:app to start the GraphQL server (uvicorn [file_name}:[app_name])
  8. open your browser and type http://localhost:8000/ to display the GraphQL playground so you can run the queries against the server

The project