GraphQL 101

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1. Who is that GraphQL all my friends are talking about?

   #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM GraphQL 101

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3. #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

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5. #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM What is GraphQL?

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7. #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM REST

8. #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM Spotify

9. #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM Goal: get the name of all the tracks

   from a playlist called “Starred” created by an specific user

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25. #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM Success!

26. #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM We only needed

27. #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM 3 HTTP calls

28. #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM Do an intensive operation in our backend (searching

    for the playlist with the “Starred” name)

29. #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM And getting three big payloads with unnecessary data*

    *for our needs

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31. #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM GraphQL is, as the name might suggest, a

    query language

32. #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM Advantages

33. #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM Get exactly what you want

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35. #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM Nesting

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38. #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM Strongly typed

39. #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM Introspective

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41. #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM No versioning

42. Demo #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM

43. FerPerales/graphql_demo #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM 

44. ferperales/graphql-101 #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM

45. 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

46. ¡Gracias! #WebDevTalks @FerPeralesM