# How To Set Up a GraphQL API Server in Node.js

DevFeed: [How To Set Up a GraphQL API Server in Node.js](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-set-up-a-graphql-api-server-in-node-js-37591.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.taniarascia.com/graphql-server-node/>)

Author: hello@taniarascia.com

Published: 2022-06-13T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Tania Rascia](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tania-rascia.md>)

Topics: [GraphQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphql.md>), [Node.js](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/node-js.md>), [Express](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/express.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [middleware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/middleware.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [api-server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api-server.md>), [cors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cors.md>), [express](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/express.md>), [graphql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphql.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [node](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/node.md>), [node-js](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/node-js.md>), [resolver](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resolver.md>), [rest](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rest.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains how to build a GraphQL API server with Express and Node.js. It covers defining a GraphQL schema with queries, mutations, and resolver functions, then exploring and debugging the API with GraphiQL.

## Source excerpt

In An Introduction to GraphQL, you learned that GraphQL is an open-source query language and runtime for APIs created to solve issues that...