Apollo Server: 400 bad request [SOLVED]

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So, I’ve fired up Apollo with an existing Express app, and used the browser to have a look at graphiql at the route I’ve set for Graphql: http://localhost:3000/graphql.

I’m using the super simple initial set up from the Apollo Server tutorial. When I refresh Graphiql, it initially returns the correct response before the second POST request fails and it returns: “message”: “Must provide query string.” along with an error in the browser console: 400: graphql:63 POST http://localhost:3000/graphql? 400 (Bad Request)

So, initially, it flashes the correct response, “it works” (form the Apollo Server tutorial) before the POST request errors out.

Has anyone else encountered this?

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Have you looked in the network tab of the dev tools to see what the request and response were? That would help identify the issue.

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Yea… it was an express middleware issue. Body parser seems to be causing it. Not an apollo issue per se, but this seems like it could be a common hiccup when getting started.

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Oh interesting! Did you end up disabling body parser? I guess one could also make sure that body parser runs after the GraphQL middleware?

@helfer something to be aware of!

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I did disable it temporarily, though I added it back with a few modifications suggested on github. No big deal.

Github issue discussing it is here.

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