How to use graphql-type-json package with GraphQl

Question

I can\'t get GraphQL to recognize the JSON scalar type.

I followed the [apollo docs] (http://dev.apollodata.com/tools/graphql-tools/scalars.html#Using-a-package) to

Answer 1

I couldn't get a custom scalar working with a text-based schema (using buildSchema('...') from the core "graphql" library), but it worked when I built the schema programmatically from scratch (using new GraphQLSchema(...)).