GraphQL is an open source query language from Facebook to connect APIs to Frontend applications. GraphQL provides a complete and understandable description of the data in your API and gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more.

[Graphcool](https://graph.cool) is a project that provides a flexible backend platform combining GraphQL+ AWS Lambda. The nice part about is how quickly you can get a project up and running.

I recommend checking out their getting started video, it is well worth the 5 minutes you will spend on it. Their recommendation is to download their example project to add your Graphcool API URL, but we went one step further to provide a one click deploy button to Netlify.

Click the button and provide your URL to Netlify to have see your GraphQL connect site ready to go and try out.

[![](https://www.netlify.com/img/deploy/button.svg "Deploy to Netlify")](https://app.netlify.com/start/deploy?repository=https://github.com/bdougie/react-relay-instagram-example)

Our button will clone a React and Relay application, if you are not familiar with Relay, check out [learnrelay.org](https://learnrelay.org) — [](https://learnrelay.org)a site hosted with our [Open Source](https://netlify.com/legal/open-source-policy/) plan.

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