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A dead-simple yet highly customizable security proxy compatible with any HTTP GraphQL Server or Gateway.

What you can do

  • Trusted Documents (Persisted Operations)
  • Block Field Suggestions
  • Obfuscate upstream errors
  • Max (Field & List) Depth

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GraphQL Protect 🛡️

GraphQL Protect is dead-simple yet highly customizable security proxy compatible with any HTTP GraphQL Server or Gateway.

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This repository is inspired by the great work of the Javascript GraphQL Armor middleware.

Features

Curious why you need these features? Check out this Excellent talk on GraphQL security on YouTube.

Installation

As Container

docker pull ghcr.io/ldebruijn/graphql-protect:latest
docker run -p 8080:8080 -v $(pwd)/protect.yml:/app/protect.yml -v $(pwd)/schema.graphql:/app/schema.graphql ghcr.io/ldebruijn/graphql-protect:latest

Make sure to portforward the right ports for your supplied configuration

Check out our run documentation for more concrete examples.

Source code

git clone [email protected]:ldebruijn/graphql-protect.git

Build & Test

make build
make test

Run Container

make run_container

Documentation

Check out our extensive documentation, including configuration examples, detailed descriptions of each protection feature as well as deployment configuration examples.

Documentation

Configuration

We recommend configuring the binary using a yaml file, place a file called protect.yml in the same directory as you're running the binary.

For all the configuration options check out the Configuration Documentation

Spec Target

At time of writing, GraphQL Protect targets the October 2021 version of the GraphQL specification and select portions of the Draft.

Contributing

Ensure you have read the Contributing Guide before contributing.

To set up your project, make sure you run the make dev.setup script.

git clone [email protected]:ldebruijn/graphql-protect.git
cd graphql-protect
make dev.setup

Known Limitations

Check out known limitations for more details.

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