1. React
  2. Frontend Developer Love
  3. 2020
  4. GraphQL Without a Database

GraphQL Without a Database

Wrap existing REST APIs into one single GraphQL endpoint on both the client and server side.

Roy Derks at Frontend Developer Love 2020

Your frontend developers are pushing to get started with GraphQL, but you don’t have the backend capacity to migrate your existing REST APIs to GraphQL? Or you want to have a GraphQL API next to your existing endpoints that are based on REST, without having to rewrite all your controllers? In this talk I’ll show how to wrap existing REST APIs into one single GraphQL endpoint on both the client and server side. This allows you to access the power of GraphQL without having to change any of your existing code or connect to a database.