Absinthe and the Tech Stack
For the rest of the book, weâll be focusing on improving an application that weâve provided called PlateSlate. PlateSlate models the menu, ordering, and order fulfillment needs of a quick-service restaurant chain. Weâll 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 havenât already downloaded the application, please go to âOnline Resourcesâ, 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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