apollo-server/docs/source/deployment/now.md

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Deploying with Zeit Now	Now	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.

{
  "name": "graphqlservice",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "keywords": [],
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "apollo-engine": "^1.1.2",
    "apollo-server": "^2.0.0-rc.5",
    "graphql": "^0.13.2"
  }
}

Deploy server to Now

Install the now cli, then visit your server directory and run the now command:

$ now

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.

Deploying directly from GitHub

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's graphql-server, this is what you'll do:

$ 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:

$ now -e ENGINE_API_KEY=xxxxxxxxx unicodeveloper/graphql-server