Turning my Laravel app into a GraphQL endpoint

Hi Jeff,

it would be awesome if you can help us with a series on how to turn a Laravel app into a GraphQL endpoint. I am sure a lot of people out there are interested to find out. I hope the Laravel community will be among the front-runners to adopt and embrace this promising technology:)

I have tried...

https://github.com/Folkloreatelier/laravel-graphql

https://github.com/webonyx/graphql-php

... and got along quite well. I managed to handle "queries" via GraphQL w/ data populated via Eloquent calls. Yet I struggle to set up "mutations". I am also not sure how to set up GraphiQL, an in-browser IDE for writing, validating, and testing GraphQL queries.

The table of contents for a potential series could be:

• General overview of the concept
• Installing one of the aforementioned libraries
• Defining a type system or schema
• Setting up queries (FetchUsers)
• Setting up mutations (CreateUser, UpdateUser)
• Adding custom and built-in validation on mutations
• Using GraphiQL to validate whether your queries and mutations work
• Testing your queries, mutations, subscriptions using the dedicated graphql-php test framework (https://github.com/webonyx/graphql-php/blob/master/tests/StarWarsQueryTest.php)
• Implementation of the GraphQL Relay specifications (http://facebook.github.io/relay/docs/graphql-relay-specification.html)