GraphQL on AppEngine Standard

[Jagath Weerasinghe]

Hello, 

Currently, we are running our REST APIs on AppEngine standard (Java 8) with Cloud Endpoints. I am looking into running a GraphQL server on top of that to serve mobile clients. If you have done this I appreciate any recommendations/directions on getting this done. I see some cases running apollo graphql on appengine, but not sure about the production readiness of those solutions. 

Thanks! 

Jagath

[Olu]

Hello, 

Running GraphQL On App Engine, it seems there is no GCP Documentation that particularly addresses this concern. However, I do believe there are some information over third party sites. 

I see this GitHub link[1] for graphql-yoga, which is based on the Apollo Framework. However, it requires Websockets which may not necessarily be available in App Engine Standard but with App Engine Flexible[2]. Hence, I am not sure how useful that would be in your use-case. I believe there are workarounds provided on this Stackoverflow links for App Engine Standard[3]. 

This article[4] also attempts to provide some pointers but it is important to note that the article used older apollo and Node.JS runtime. 

I suggest you likewise taking this question to the Apollo community[4] to discuss it further. 

Thanks!

[1]https://github.com/prisma-labs/graphql-yoga

[2]https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/python/using-websockets-and-session-affinity

[3]https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4114902/how-can-i-run-a-websocket-server-on-top-of-gae

[4]https://medium.com/google-cloud/apollo-graphql-server-on-google-app-engine-in-under-5-minutes-bbd64050e9ff

[5]https://spectrum.chat/apollo?tab=posts

[Jagath Weerasinghe]

Thanks for the information and links!