If you think that setting up a GraphQL server is a difficult task, GraphQL Boilerplates Github repo will prove you that you're very wrong.

The best thing about GraphQL is that is can be used with any technology. Let's take a look at starter projects for most popular web technologies, provided by one of the finest GraphQL devs. Now first off, let's take a look at TypeScript.

TypeScript-graphql-server

TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript, which popularity constantly rising. The TypeScript Boilerplate repo contains two starter kits:

• Basic
• Advanced

Both allowing to bootstrap your GraphQL server with TypeScript within seconds. No matter if you need a Basic option for a simple personal project or Advanced boilerplate with more features you are getting scalable, production-ready GraphQL server.

All projects are based on graphql-yoga, a GraphQL server library focused on providing the easiest possible setup.

Let's take a look at features available in those versions:

The setup is the same for both versions:

graphql create my-app

when prompted pick the desired boilerplate & deploy the Prisma service to a public cluster, then navigate into server directory of your new project and start it:

cd my-app/server

yarn dev

and our project structure will look like this:

Source: Graphql-boilerplates