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In this guide, we’ll look at how to build a GraphQL API in Node.js with Apollo Server. By running it on Azure Functions with Cosmos DB for data storage, we can build a highly scalable serverless GraphQL API, removing the need to manage server infrastructure.

In this article, you will see a practical example of building a unified GraphQL API (supergraph) composed of multiple GraphQL APIs (subgraphs). This is achieved with Apollo Router which recently became generally available.

GraphQL is a great way to build strongly typed, self documenting applications. One of the key concepts in GraphQL is that the server provides a single endpoint where it exposes all the data in a graph like structure that the clients can request from. Hence, our application needs to control who (authentication) can see and interact with what parts (authorization) of the data it provides.