Redwood: Using Existing GraphQL endpoint.

[brianraila]

Is it possible to use Redwood with an already existing GraphQL endpoint or using a service such as Hasura or FaunaDB?

[csellis]

They're currently working on a FaunaDB integration.

[jtoar]

@brianraila It should be possible. In your redwood.toml, there's a variable you can set called apiProxyPath. If you look at how Redwood instantiates the Apollo Client, it uses __REDWOOD__API_PROXY_PATH as the uri.

https://github.com/redwoodjs/redwood/blob/352ab14a3e7ce67cdf119cf6580df4e7a2423df9/packages/web/src/graphql/index.js#L10-L15

__REDWOOD__API_PROXY_PATH is set using apiProxyPath in webpack.common.js, so you can kind of tweak your graphQL endpoint by changing apiProxyPath.

https://github.com/redwoodjs/redwood/blob/352ab14a3e7ce67cdf119cf6580df4e7a2423df9/packages/core/config/webpack.common.js#L136-L140

But right now that trailing /graphql is hardcoded in, so you'd have to go into node_modules if you want to change that too.

[thedavidprice]

Hi @brianraila If you haven't seen these already, here are some relevant docs and conversations:

• https://redwoodjs.com/cookbook/using-a-third-party-api
• https://redwoodjs.com/cookbook/disable-api-database (e.g. you just want Redwood Web to connect to existing API that's not Redwood)
• https://community.redwoodjs.com/t/building-a-minimum-viable-stack-with-redwoodjs-and-faunadb/1048
  https://community.redwoodjs.com/t/building-a-minimum-viable-stack-with-redwoodjs-and-faunadb/1048/11
• https://community.redwoodjs.com/t/using-redwood-with-neo4j-database/282
• https://community.redwoodjs.com/t/what-dbs-does-redwood-support/143/14 (Example Redwood using graphql-request)

Hope this helps!

Closing this Issue for now. But (re)open as needed and/or reach out on the Forums!

[brianraila]

Thanks for that @thedavidprice

[brianraila]

But does this mean I am not able to take advantage of "cells" in Redwood when using an external GraphQL API?

[jtoar]

@brianraila A Cell will still work just fine :+1: