[YeurDreamin 2023] Bring data to your LWC without Apex using the GraphQL Wire Adapter

Using Lightning Data Service is great in LWC, getting record data in just a few lines of code without having to write Apex, Test Class, be sure that Field Level Security is checked etc… But you quickly hit a limit, as soon as you want to get more specific data, applying filters or getting relationships, you need to go back to Apex. Not anymore! With the GraphQL Wire Adapter you’ll be able to query Salesforce data right from your LWC without writing a single line of Apex. Let’s have a look!

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1. Welcome to #YD23 Brussels
2. Bring data to your LWC without Apex using the GraphQL Wire Adapter Fabien Taillon CTO at Texeï - Salesforce MVP @FabienTaillon
3. Fabien Taillon • Salesforce MVP Hall of Fame • CTO at Texeï • Paris Developer Group Leader • French Touch Dreamin team • Serial speaker @FabienTaillon https://texei.com/blog Who am I
4. - Created by Facebook in 2012 - No need to call several APIs - Get many resources in a single request - Ask for what you need, get exactly that - Self documented - With a type system A query language for your API source: Michael Poirier-Ginter What is GraphQL
5. • a read only stream of data • shared cache between components (standard & custom) • reactive to changes outside of the component’s scope • no Apex with standard Lightning Data Service Wire Adapters • just import it and use it 🎉 What is a Wire Adapter
6. A GAME CHANGER What is the GraphQL Wire Adapter
7. Query any list of records you want - Order them - Group them - … Easy to use because - you don’t need to write any Apex - respects user Field Level Security - use the same shared Lightning Data Service cache Get for a custom component - a list of all contacts for a given account - a search page - a hierarchy of records - one specific record with filters, without knowing its Id at first - … What is the GraphQL Wire Adapter
8. - An easy to use local client to test your queries - Get an access token - for instance use sf org display - Use the following url: - https://{MyDomainName}.my.salesforce.com/services/data/v{version}/graphql - Then you can: - query - autocomplete - look at API documentation (display existing fields, available formatting etc) https://ww.altairgraphql.dev Connect to GraphQL API Altair GraphQL Client
9. DEMO GraphQL Wire Adapter
10. Filter, order, query relationships, use variables… GraphQL Wire Adapter
11. Filter, order, query relationships, use variables… GraphQL Wire Adapter
12. Filter, order, query relationships, use variables… GraphQL Wire Adapter
13. Filter, order, query relationships, use variables… GraphQL Wire Adapter
14. - Backward pagination - Filter with no value - Actually more GraphQL than Salesforce “issue” - No mutation (on the roadmap) What’s not available (yet ?)
15. https://trailhead.salesforce.com/trailblazer-community/groups/0F94S000000kRExSAM GraphQL API & LWC Wire Adapter Community Group Join the GraphQL API & LWC Wire Adapter Trailblazer Community Group
16. Demo source code: https://github.com/FabienTaillon/graphql-wire-adapter-demo Developer Guide: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/graphql/guide/graphql-wire-lwc.html GraphQL Wire Adapter for LWC Blog Post: https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/2023/02/now-in-pilot-graphql-wire-adapter-for-lwc GraphQL API & LWC Wire Adapter Trailblazer Community Group: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/trailblazer-community/groups/0F94S000000kRExSAM Resources
17. Q&A #YD23 Brussels