Setup an Apollo GraphQL Server with automatic Mocking

When iterating on new GraphQL schema, it is great to have a server implementation allowing you to only provide type definitions and the server returning mocked results. This enables you to quickly iterate on ideas and verify them with example queries.

Apollo Server offers this by enabling the mocked mode. In this lesson create a new server with mocking enabled, customize mocks and walk through how to combine mocks with resolvers.

This setup then will be the basis for our schema design explorations. Let me add that while Apollo Server works well for this case, any other GraphQL server might do as well.