Is it possible to access the outside the context of a resolver? For example, I want to make express middleware which checks a JWT and then queries the database for a user

I've just recently solved this problem for myself, check my comment in this thread for a starter for 10: https://graphcool.slack.com/archives/C0MQJ62NL/p1517309858000079?thread_ts=1517138828.000035&cid=C0MQJ62NL