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+# API routes with GraphQL server
+
+## How to use
+
+### Using `create-next-app`
+
+Execute [`create-next-app`](https://github.com/segmentio/create-next-app) with [Yarn](https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/cli/create/) or [npx](https://github.com/zkat/npx#readme) to bootstrap the example:
+
+```bash
+npx create-next-app --example api-routes-graphql api-routes-graphql-app
+# or
+yarn create next-app --example api-routes-graphql api-routes-graphql-app
+```
+
+### Download manually
+
+Download the example:
+
+```bash
+curl https://codeload.github.com/zeit/next.js/tar.gz/canary | tar -xz --strip=2 next.js-canary/examples/api-routes-graphql
+cd api-routes-graphql
+```
+
+Install it and run:
+
+```bash
+npm install
+npm run dev
+# or
+yarn
+yarn dev
+```
+
+Deploy it to the cloud with [now](https://zeit.co/now) ([download](https://zeit.co/download))
+
+```bash
+now
+```
+
+## The idea behind the example
+
+Next.js ships with [API routes](https://github.com/zeit/next.js#api-routes), which provide an easy solution to build your own `API`. This example shows their usage alongside [apollo-server-micro](https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server/tree/master/packages/apollo-server-micro) to provide simple GraphQL server consumed by Next.js app.
diff --git a/examples/api-routes-graphql/package.json b/examples/api-routes-graphql/package.json
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+{
+  "name": "api-routes-graphql",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "scripts": {
+    "dev": "next",
+    "build": "next build",
+    "start": "next start"
+  },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "apollo-server-micro": "2.6.7",
+    "graphql": "14.4.2",
+    "isomorphic-unfetch": "3.0.0",
+    "next": "9.0.0",
+    "react": "^16.8.6",
+    "react-dom": "^16.8.6"
+  },
+  "license": "ISC"
+}
diff --git a/examples/api-routes-graphql/pages/api/graphql.js b/examples/api-routes-graphql/pages/api/graphql.js
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+import { ApolloServer, gql } from 'apollo-server-micro'
+
+const typeDefs = gql`
+  type Query {
+    users: [User!]!
+  }
+  type User {
+    name: String
+  }
+`
+
+const resolvers = {
+  Query: {
+    users (parent, args, context) {
+      return [{ name: 'Nextjs' }]
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+const apolloServer = new ApolloServer({ typeDefs, resolvers })
+
+export const config = {
+  api: {
+    bodyParser: false
+  }
+}
+
+export default apolloServer.createHandler({ path: '/api/graphql' })
diff --git a/examples/api-routes-graphql/pages/index.js b/examples/api-routes-graphql/pages/index.js
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+import fetch from 'isomorphic-unfetch'
+
+const Index = ({ users }) => (
+  <div>
+    {users.map((user, i) => (
+      <div key={i}>{user.name}</div>
+    ))}
+  </div>
+)
+
+Index.getInitialProps = async () => {
+  const response = await fetch('http://localhost:3000/api/graphql', {
+    method: 'POST',
+    headers: {
+      'Content-type': 'application/json'
+    },
+    body: JSON.stringify({ query: '{ users { name } }' })
+  })
+
+  const {
+    data: { users }
+  } = await response.json()
+
+  return { users }
+}
+
+export default Index