How it works

GraphQL Portal consists of two major components:

• Gateway – can be launched as 1 or more instances in 1 or more servers/containers/pods;
• Dashboard – a backend (NestJS) and frontend (React) application that connects with Gateway nodes and works as a configuration interface for Gateways.

We also plan on adding a GraphQL Registry in the future.

In a full-power mode, GraphQL Portal will require two more components: Redis and MongoDB.

Once installed and configured, the Gateway allows you to:

• connect to multiple sources of data, including existing GraphQL services, REST or gRPC APIs, databases, etc;
• combine these data sources into universal graphs and serve them from different endpoints;
• apply schema transformations if necessary, cache data;
• protect your APIs with authentication keys;
• gather metrics and analytics;
• configure custom notifications via webhooks (coming soon).