Graphql-101-devc

An introduction to GraphQL

Presented at Facebook Developer Circles GDL chapter meetup in February 28th

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1. Who is that GraphQL all my friends are talking about? #developercircles #devc @FerPeralesM GraphQL 101
2. <me> #developercircles #devc @FerPeralesM
3. Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer @ michelada.io FLOSS advocate Heavy Metal and Beer lover Host the RubyGDL community Co-founder @ Railsbridge México In Gregory Sallust I trust #developercircles #devc @FerPeralesM
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5. What is GraphQL? #developercircles #devc @FerPeralesM
6.  2012 #developercircles #devc @FerPeralesM
7. REST #developercircles #devc @FerPeralesM
8. Spotify #developercircles #devc @FerPeralesM
9. Goal: get the name of all the tracks from a playlist called “Starred” created by an specific user #developercircles #devc @FerPeralesM
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24. Success! #developercircles #devc @FerPeralesM
25. We only needed #developercircles #devc @FerPeralesM
26. 3 HTTP calls #developercircles #devc @FerPeralesM
27. Do an intensive operation in our backend (searching for the playlist with the “Starred” name) #developercircles #devc @FerPeralesM
28. And getting three big payloads with unnecessary data* *for our needs #developercircles #devc @FerPeralesM
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30. GraphQL is, as the name might suggest, a query language #developercircles #devc @FerPeralesM
31. Advantages #developercircles #devc @FerPeralesM
32. Get exactly what you want #developercircles #devc @FerPeralesM
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34. Nesting #developercircles #devc @FerPeralesM
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37. Strongly typed #developercircles #devc @FerPeralesM
38. Introspective #developercircles #devc @FerPeralesM
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40. No versioning #developercircles #devc @FerPeralesM
41. Demo #developercircles #devc @FerPeralesM
42. FerPerales/graphql_demo  #developercircles #devc @FerPeralesM
43. ferperales/graphql-101-devc #developercircles #devc @FerPeralesM
44. Sources 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 #developercircles #devc @FerPeralesM
45. Thanks! #developercircles #devc @FerPeralesM