Provision a Dgraph Cloud backend

In Dgraph Cloud, an app is served by a GraphQL backend powered by Dgraph database. You should deploy a backend for each app you build, and potentially backends for test and development environments as well.

For this tutorial, you will just deploy one backend for development.

• Follow the instructions to provision a backend

The URL listed in “GraphQL Endpoint” is the URL at which Dgraph Cloud will serve data to your app. You’ll need that for later, so note it down — though you’ll always be able to access it from the dashboard. There’s nothing at that URL yet, first you need to design the GraphQL schema for the app.

Move on to schema design

Let’s now move on to the design process - it’s graph-first, in fact, it’s GraphQL-first. You’ll design the GraphQL types that your app is based around, learn about how graphs work and then look at some example queries and mutations.