Next.js ships with API routes, which provide an easy solution to build your own API. This example showcases how to build a lightweight and blazing fast GraphQL API with minimum configuration using GraphQL Yoga.

GraphQL Yoga comes with strong defaults:

• CORS is enabled by default
• Automatically masking unexpected errors and preventing sensitive information from leaking to clients.
• Shipped with GraphiQL

Yoga also brings support (with no additional dependency) for subscriptions, file uploads, and your favorite schema-building library (GraphQL Tools, Pothos, Nexus, TypeGraphQL, SDL first schema-design approaches, graphql-js, Apollo Tools).

More information on all available features are available on the official documentation.

Finally, GraphQL Yoga is built on top of Envelop. Envelop is a library that helps build GraphQL API faster and flexibly with plugin-based architecture.

Similar to Express middlewares allowing you to customize requests' behavior, Envelop applies the same idea to GraphQL requests.

More information on Envelop documentation.

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Execute create-next-app with npm, Yarn, or pnpm to bootstrap the example:

npx create-next-app --example api-routes-graphql api-routes-graphql-app

yarn create next-app --example api-routes-graphql api-routes-graphql-app

pnpm create next-app --example api-routes-graphql api-routes-graphql-app

Deploy it to the cloud with Vercel (Documentation).