Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe

Moving On

In this chapter, we learned how to build the foundation of a GraphQL schema in an Elixir application, defining an object type that we exposed via a query field, and we tested our fledgling API using a popular tool, GraphiQL.

Here are a couple challenges for you before we move on:

1. We’ve defined :id and :name fields for our MenuItem object type. The backing Ecto schema, PlateSlate.Menu.Item, has a number of other fields we could also expose in our GraphQL schema. Define another one using one of the built-in scalar types we mentioned earlier.
2. Add descriptions for the fields inside the MenuItem object type, using the @desc form. Don’t stop there: you can use it to add a description for the object type itself, too. Verify that GraphiQL is ...