API routes with GraphQL server

Next.js ships with API routes, which provide an easy solution to build your own API. This example shows their usage alongside apollo-server-micro to provide simple GraphQL server consumed by Next.js app.

Deploy your own

Deploy the example using Vercel:

How to use

Using create-next-app

Execute create-next-app with npm or Yarn to bootstrap the example:

npx create-next-app --example api-routes-graphql api-routes-graphql-app
# or
yarn create next-app --example api-routes-graphql api-routes-graphql-app

Download manually

Download the example:

curl https://codeload.github.com/vercel/next.js/tar.gz/canary | tar -xz --strip=2 next.js-canary/examples/api-routes-graphql
cd api-routes-graphql

Install it and run:

npm install
npm run dev
# or
yarn
yarn dev

Deploy it to the cloud with Vercel (Documentation).