Getting started with Absinthe

Absinthe is an open source implementation of the GraphQL server specification for Elixir. Note that I said "Elixir" there and now "Phoenix". Absinthe doesn't need Phoenix, but we're going to use it in this example because my guess is that not many people are making purely GraphQL services and most of us are probably bolting it on to existing sites or services.

Absinthe has truly amazing docs. Seriously. They're so great. You should check them out.

We're going to build a really simple Phoenix application called faces which can import a user's name and avatar from GitHub and display a list on a web page.