Run GraphQL and Express Together in One Node Instance

If you ever need the benefits of node express and graphql, this will allow you to run both at once in the same code base.

This can be useful if you’d like to protect API calls (Like authentication) with something like cloudflare but also want to serve content easily using GraphQL


export const startServer = async () = {
  const gqlServer = new ApolloServer({typedefs, resolvers})
  const expressServer = createExpressServer();

  gqlServer.start();

  gqlServer.applyMiddleware({ expressServer, path: '/' })

  expressServer.listen({ 4000 });

  console.log(`Server ready at: http://localhost:4000${gqlServer.graphqlPath}`);
};

startServer();

Snippet: Run GraphQL and Express in the Same Backend

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