A walk in GraphQL

Python setup

Install or update Python version >=3.6

Pip is also needed (comes with Python installation)

Links (just in case):

• In Windows
• In Linux

Run the server

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])

GraphQL Playground

Open your browser and type http://localhost:8000/ to display the GraphQL playground so you can run the queries against the server