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GraphQL 101
Fernando Perales
May 03, 2017
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GraphQL 101
An introduction to GraphQL
Presented at WebDevTalks meetup in May 3rd
Fernando Perales
May 03, 2017
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Transcript
Who is that GraphQL all my friends are talking about?
#WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM GraphQL 101
<me> #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM
#WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM Software Engineer Former MagmaLabs / FreeAgent Software FLOSS
advocate Heavy Metal and Beer lover Host the RubyGDL community Founder @ elbuencodigo.com In Gregory Sallust I trust
</me> #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM
#WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM What is GraphQL?
#WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM 2012
#WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM REST
#WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM Spotify
#WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM Goal: get the name of all the tracks
from a playlist called “Starred” created by an specific user
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#WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM Success!
#WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM We only needed
#WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM 3 HTTP calls
#WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM Do an intensive operation in our backend (searching
for the playlist with the “Starred” name)
#WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM And getting three big payloads with unnecessary data*
*for our needs
#WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM
#WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM GraphQL is, as the name might suggest, a
query language
#WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM Advantages
#WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM Get exactly what you want
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#WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM Nesting
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#WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM Strongly typed
#WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM Introspective
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#WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM No versioning
Demo #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM
FerPerales/graphql_demo #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM
ferperales/graphql-101 #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM
Fuentes #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM https://medium.freecodecamp.com/so-whats-this-graphql-thing-i-keep-hearing-about-baf4d36c20cf http://blog.codeship.com/an-introduction-to-graphql-via-the-github-api http://facebook.github.io/graphql/ http://thenewstack.io/graphql-data-query-language-resource-guide http://medium.freecodecamp.com/give-it-a-rest-use-graphql-for-your-apis-40a2761e6336 http://dev.to/reactiveconf/why-i-believe-graphql-will-come-to-replace-rest
¡Gracias! #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM