How to Implement a GraphQL API on Top of an Existing REST API

Tyler Hawkins
codeburst
Published in
6 min readFeb 1, 2021

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Dad joke “dadabase” app
Dad joke “dadabase” app

Where do you keep your dad jokes? In a dadabase of course! Let’s imagine that you are a site maintainer for the world’s best dad joke database. Your app communicates with the database using a REST API that allows you to retrieve jokes and post ratings for those jokes. Visitors to your site can rate each joke they see via a simple user interface.

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