The fastest way to get started with GraphQL

We're currently not aware of any live production sites up and running right now from our users. However, we do have an open Github repo (https://github.com/scaphold-io) with production-ready boilerplates for React and React Native with Relay. Within the week, we'll release more that use client frameworks like AngularJS and React with Apollo Client.

To provide examples of what we've seen so far, we've seen block chain models, chat bot apps, and music apps hosted on Scaphold to give you an idea of how complex they can get.

Certainly. There tends to be quite a few posts about GraphQL on tech blogs these days, and a primary reason for this post is to drive the point home that although it's new, it's not hard to use, especially with the help of major tooling like Apollo Client and Relay.

There's two ways you can do this cleanly. One is to start from scratch and create a GraphQL server that directly hits your data source(s) by replacing the REST component of it. The other is to create a GraphQL schema that serves as a gateway to your REST app. In both solutions, you'll be creating GraphQL types for your input and return types, and re-writing your calls on your client apps to conform to GraphQL. However, the long-term benefit of this is that you can write your queries once, and run them anywhere on any client app platform.