GraphQL: getting started

Lesson 04 · 12 min

Mutations and resolvers

A resolver is a function that knows where to get a field.

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Every schema field has a resolver (parent, args, context) => value. parent is the object one level up, args the field's arguments, context the request's shared things: the user, the database. Mutations are the same resolvers in the Mutation type; they change data and return the result.

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