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Łukasz Szymański
April 03, 2017
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GraphQL Without Hype
Łukasz Szymański
April 03, 2017
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GraphQL WITHOUT HYPE szymanskilukasz
szymanskilukasz REST
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szymanskilukasz Multiple round trips between the client and server to
render single views
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szymanskilukasz Ad Hoc Endpoints
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szymanskilukasz Maintaining Versions
szymanskilukasz Weakly Typed
szymanskilukasz Over Fetching Data
szymanskilukasz Documentation ?
szymanskilukasz What is GraphQL?
szymanskilukasz GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a
runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data
szymanskilukasz No round trips
szymanskilukasz For clients
szymanskilukasz Backend ?
szymanskilukasz It can be anything
szymanskilukasz It can be anything
szymanskilukasz How ? 'resolve' => function ($rootValue, $args, $context) {
// return something from your existing backend; }
szymanskilukasz Thanks to resolve() we can put GraphQL anywhere
szymanskilukasz API for mobile apps
szymanskilukasz Internal API
szymanskilukasz API for services
szymanskilukasz No Versioning https://github.com/facebook/graphql/issues/175
szymanskilukasz Facebook's GraphQL schema
szymanskilukasz Facebook's GraphQL schema - over 4 years old
szymanskilukasz Facebook's GraphQL schema - over 4 years old -
1,000s of types at this point
szymanskilukasz Facebook's GraphQL schema - over 4 years old -
1,000s of types at this point, - under active change by 100s of engineers
szymanskilukasz Facebook's GraphQL schema - over 4 years old -
1,000s of types at this point, - under active change by 100s of engineers - has never needed a versioned breaking change
szymanskilukasz Facebook's GraphQL schema - over 4 years old -
1,000s of types at this point, - under active change by 100s of engineers - has never needed a versioned breaking change - and still supports 4-year old shipped versions of iOS and Android apps (which unfortunately are still being used)
szymanskilukasz Strongly Typed / Documentation
szymanskilukasz Confession
szymanskilukasz Be prepared
szymanskilukasz Denial of Service
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szymanskilukasz Authentication Authorization
szymanskilukasz N+1 queries
szymanskilukasz Monitoring / Debugging Tools
szymanskilukasz How to get started
szymanskilukasz Internal API for services
szymanskilukasz Demo: echo(message: “”)
Demo: echo(message: “”)
szymanskilukasz Demo: get User Credits
szymanskilukasz Demo: get User Credits
szymanskilukasz Demo: Deprecated Fields
szymanskilukasz Demo: Deprecated Fields
szymanskilukasz Demo: Mutations
szymanskilukasz Demo: Mutations
szymanskilukasz Public API
szymanskilukasz Demo: User Authorization
szymanskilukasz Demo: User Authorization
szymanskilukasz Demo: Performance
szymanskilukasz Demo: Performance
szymanskilukasz I just want to have fun
http://graphql.org/swapi-graphql/ szymanskilukasz
https://developer.github.com/early-access/graphql/explorer/ szymanskilukasz
https://github.com/chentsulin/awesome-graphql szymanskilukasz
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