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Lessons Learned from Integrating Django & GraphQL
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Krzysztof Żuraw
January 26, 2018
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Lessons Learned from Integrating Django & GraphQL
A few lessons learned while working with GraphQL & Django.
Krzysztof Żuraw
January 26, 2018
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LESSONS LEARNED LESSONS LEARNED FROM INTEGRATING DJANGO & FROM INTEGRATING
DJANGO & GRAPHQL GRAPHQL Created by Krzysztof Żuraw
WHO AM I? WHO AM I? PYTHON AND JAVASCRIPT DEVELOPER
PYTHON AND JAVASCRIPT DEVELOPER AT AT BASED IN WROCŁAW. BASED IN WROCŁAW. STXNEXT STXNEXT
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LESSON 1: GRAPHQL LESSON 1: GRAPHQL IS COOL IS COOL
IF YOU KNOW HOW TO USE IT IF YOU KNOW HOW TO USE IT
TECHNOLOGY STACK TECHNOLOGY STACK
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ASK FOR WHAT YOU NEED ASK FOR WHAT YOU NEED
GET RESULTS GET RESULTS { allActors{ lastName } } { "data": { "allActors": [ { "lastName": "Travolta" }, { "lastName": "Jackson" }, } }
GET MANY RESOURCES IN A GET MANY RESOURCES IN A
SINGLE REQUEST SINGLE REQUEST { film(id: 1) { title actors { firstName lastName } } }
{ "data": { "film": { "title": "Pulp Fiction", "actors": [
{ "firstName": "John", "lastName": "Travolta" }, { "firstName": "Samuel L.", "lastName": "Jackson" }, ]}}
DATA MUTATION DATA MUTATION mutation CreateFilm { createFilm(film: { title:
"My cool title" }) { title id } } { "data": { "createFilm": { "title": "My cool title", "id": 123 } } }
mutation UpdateFilm { updateFilm(film: { title: "Totaly different title" })
{ title } } { "data": { "updateFilm": { "title": "Totaly different title", } } }
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LESSON 2: GRAPHENE-PYTHON LESSON 2: GRAPHENE-PYTHON class Film(graphene.ObjectType): class Meta:
interfaces = (relay.Node, ) title = graphene.String() actors = graphene.List(Actor) air_date = graphene_datetime.DateTime() rating = graphene.Int()
{ "name": "film", "description": "The ID of the object", "args":
[ { "name": "id", "description": null, "type": { "kind": "NON_NULL", "name": null, "ofType": { "kind": "SCALAR", "name": "ID", "ofType": null } }, "defaultValue": null } ], "type": { "kind": "OBJECT", "name": "Film", "ofType": null }, "isDeprecated": false
CONCLUSION CONCLUSION PYTHON HAS A GREAT GRAPHQL PYTHON HAS A
GREAT GRAPHQL LIBRARY LIBRARY BUT BUT You have to be aware that it is a new library
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LESSON 3: GRAPHRELATED FIELD LESSON 3: GRAPHRELATED FIELD Why? Almost
like ForeginKey in Django but without existence checks
# one microservice class Film(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length=100) air_date =
models.DateField() actor = GraphRelatedField('Actor') # another microservice class Actor(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=100) # usage actor_name = film.actor.name
CONCLUSION CONCLUSION WE WANT TO HAVE BETTER WE WANT TO
HAVE BETTER COMMUNICATION BETWEEN COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MICROSERVICES MICROSERVICES JUST TO JUST TO Merge them together
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LESSON 4: NUMBER OF LESSON 4: NUMBER OF REQUESTS REQUESTS
Inspired by Django ORM `prefetch_related` Fetch list of objects using one HTTP query and place them in thread-safe attribute inside a context.
CACHING CACHING HTTP Headers caching
SET CACHING HEADERS TO SET CACHING HEADERS TO INFORM INFORM
For how long cache the response? When there is need for refetch data for different users using the `Vary` header
CACHE POLICY CACHE POLICY Short cache times - less than
1 minute
CONCLUSION CONCLUSION USING CACHING BY VARY HEADER AND USING CACHING
BY VARY HEADER AND PREFETCHING OBJECTS IS GOOD IDEA PREFETCHING OBJECTS IS GOOD IDEA
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LESSON 5: AUTHENTICATION LESSON 5: AUTHENTICATION What? JWT Why?
CONCLUSION CONCLUSION CHOOSING JWT WAS A GOOD IDEA - IT
CHOOSING JWT WAS A GOOD IDEA - IT ALLOWS US TO STORE ADDITIONAL INFO ALLOWS US TO STORE ADDITIONAL INFO
LESSON 6: FRONTEND TOOLING LESSON 6: FRONTEND TOOLING
CONCLUSION CONCLUSION A LOT OF NEW LIBRARIES - NOT ALWAYS
A LOT OF NEW LIBRARIES - NOT ALWAYS MATURE MATURE
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THIS IS THE END THIS IS THE END Thank you
My blog: krzysztofzuraw.com My twitter: @krzysztof_zuraw