Absinthe and the Tech Stack

For the rest of the book, we’ll be focusing on improving an application that we’ve provided called PlateSlate. PlateSlate models the menu, ordering, and order fulfillment needs of a quick-service restaurant chain. We’ll incrementally build out the domain model and add features to its API that will expose you to deeper, trickier aspects of GraphQL (and Elixir) as we go. If you haven’t already downloaded the application, please go to ​Online Resources​, and follow the instructions there.

This application makes use of a few Elixir packages, the most important of which is Absinthe. Absinthe lets you build GraphQL schemas and execute documents against them using Elixir. It provides a host of features that ...

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