The Guild · GraphQL Specification

GraphQL Yoga

GraphQL Yoga is a fully-featured, cross-platform GraphQL server from The Guild, built on top of graphql-js with an Envelop plugin system. It runs anywhere JavaScript runs — Node.js (Express, Fastify, Koa, Next.js, NestJS), Deno, Bun, Cloudflare Workers, and all major edge runtimes — using a single isomorphic Request/Response API.

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Overview

GraphQL Yoga is a GraphQL API specification published by The Guild on the APIs.io network.

GraphQL Yoga is a fully-featured, cross-platform GraphQL server from The Guild, built on top of graphql-js with an Envelop plugin system. It runs anywhere JavaScript runs — Node.js (Express, Fastify, Koa, Next.js, NestJS), Deno, Bun, Cloudflare Workers, and all major edge runtimes — using a single isomorphic Request/Response API.

The GraphQL endpoint is available at Self-hosted. documentation is published at https://the-guild.dev/graphql/yoga-server/docs.

The specification includes 5 reference links.

Tagged areas include API Composition, API Gateway, API Observability, Breaking Change Detection, and CI/CD.

Endpoint

Self-hosted

References

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