How to deploy Next.js with GraphQL backend on Zeit Now? - graphql

Question

I have an Next.js/Express/Apollo GraphQL app running fine on localhost.
I try to deploy it on Zeit Now, and the Next.js part works fine, but the GraphQL backend fails because /graphql route returns:
502: An error occurred with your deployment
Code: NO_STATUS_CODE_FROM_LAMBDA
My now.json looks like:
{
"version": 2,
"builds": [
{ "src": "next.config.js", "use": "#now/next" },
{ "src": "server/server.js", "use": "#now/node" }
],
"routes": [
{ "src": "/api/(.*)", "dest": "server/server.js" },
{ "src": "/graphql", "dest": "server/server.js" }
]
}
Suggestions?

Answer 1

Here’s a complete example of Next.js/Apollo GraphQL running both on Zeit Now (as serverless function/lambda) and Heroku (with an Express server):
https://github.com/tomsoderlund/nextjs-pwa-graphql-sql-boilerplate

Answer 2

I was getting that error until I found on a solution on the Wes Bos slack channel.
The following worked for me, but it's possible you could be getting that error for a different reason.
I'm not sure why it works.
You can see it working here
cd backend
Run npm install graphql-import
Update scripts in package.json:
"deploy": "prisma deploy --env-file variables.env&& npm run writeSchema",
"writeSchema": "node src/writeSchema.js"
Note: For non windows users make sure to place space before &&
Create src/writeSchema.js:
const fs = require('fs');
const { importSchema } = require('graphql-import');
const text = importSchema("src/generated/prisma.graphql");
fs.writeFileSync("src/schema_prep.graphql", text)
Update src/db.js:
const db = new Prisma({
typeDefs: __dirname + "/schema_prep.graphql",
...
});
Update src/createServer.js:
return new GraphQLServer({
typeDefs: __dirname + '/schema.graphql',
...
});
Update src/schema.graphql:
# import * from './schema_prep.graphql'
Create now.json
{
"version": 2,
"name": "Project Name",
"builds": [
{ "src": "src/index.js", "use": "#now/node-server" }
],
"routes": [
{ "src": "/.*", "dest": "src/index.js" }
],
"env": {
"SOME_VARIABLE": "xxx",
...
}
}
Run npm run deploy to initially create schema_prep.graphql.
Run now
Another reply said this:
You should not mix graphql imports and js/ts imports. The syntax on the graphql file will be interpreted by graphql-import and will be ignored by ncc (the compiler which reads the __dirname stuff and move the file to the correct directory etc)
In my example 'schema_prep.graphql' is already preprocessed with the imports from the generated graphql file.
Hopefully this helps.