Workshop: Apollo Router & MCP: A Modern Agentic Development Approach
summary
Hands‑on workshop that builds a complete e‑commerce stack from GraphQL API to AI: configure Apollo Router to compose federated services, add a Model Context Protocol server to expose any GraphQL operation as MCP tools with zero extra code, and use Rover Dev hot‑reload for rapid iteration. Demonstrates connector-based REST integration, an inspector UI with introspect / search / execute tools to generate curated operations, and an agent run via Goose; a Pokémon “ask” tool is implemented but a live OpenAI API key hiccup blocks the final demo.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Workshop introduction
- 8:39Model Context Protocol overview
- 11:25Dream query exercise
- 23:51Building Pokémon agent with GraphQL
- 39:50Apollo Router and MCP architecture
- 52:51Introspection tools for schemas
- 1:00:18Connecting Goose agent to MCP
- 1:17:06Workshop recap
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