description: Deploying your GraphQL server to Zeit Now
---
`now` is a service by Zeit that allows you to deploy an instance of Apollo Server and have a functional GraphQL endpoint. `now` supports three types of deployments for web apps: `static`, `node.js`, and `Docker`. We'll focus on the Node.js deployment for this guide.
## Node.js Deployment
Deployment to `now` for node apps simply requires a `package.json` file to be present in your app directory. Your server directory has a `package.json` file.
```js
{
"name": "graphqlservice",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"main": "index.js",
"scripts": {
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
The `now` command immediately deploys your server to the cloud and returns the hosted project link. Send a query to your GraphQL server on `now` at `<NOW_APP_NAME>.now.sh`.
If you have your GraphQL server published to GitHub, `now` provides the ability to deploy straight from GitHub to the cloud.
Assuming you'd like to deploy an instance of [unicodeveloper](https://github.com/unicodeveloper)'s [graphql-server](https://github.com/unicodeveloper/graphql-server), this is what you'll do:
```sh
$ now unicodeveloper/graphql-server
```
The `graphql-server` in this example is connected to Apollo Engine and requires an API key for it to send reports to Engine. You can pass in environment variables such as `ENGINE_API_KEY` like so:
```sh
$ now -e ENGINE_API_KEY=xxxxxxxxx unicodeveloper/graphql-server
