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Prerequisite

1. Apollo GraphQL Server

Setup GraphQL Server (Typescript)

• Create new folder graphql-server

mkdir graphql-server
cd graphql-server

• Initialize new node.js project

npm init --yes && npm pkg set type="module"

• Install Apollo Server

npm install @apollo/server graphql

• Run this command to setup typescript

mkdir src
touch src/index.ts
npm install --save-dev typescript @types/node
touch tsconfig.json

• copy this config below to your tsconfig.json

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "rootDirs": ["src"],
    "outDir": "dist",
    "lib": ["es2020"],
    "target": "es2020",
    "module": "esnext",
    "moduleResolution": "node",
    "esModuleInterop": true,
    "types": ["node"]
  }
}

• update script package.json like this and make sure…