Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

GraphQL ❤ PostgreSQL -- P.S. aka BeatQL

Sponsored · SiteGround - Reliable hosting with speed, security, and support you can count on. →
Avatar for Lukas Fittl Lukas Fittl
August 26, 2016
Programming
1
630

GraphQL ❤ PostgreSQL -- P.S. aka BeatQL

The Easy Way to Persisting Data in React

https://github.com/lfittl/beatql

Avatar for Lukas Fittl

Lukas Fittl

August 26, 2016
Tweet

More Decks by Lukas Fittl

See All by Lukas Fittl
How to Scale Postgres - Automation, Tuning & Sharding
Avatar for Lukas Fittl lfittl
0
680
What's Missing for Postgres Monitoring
Avatar for Lukas Fittl lfittl
0
270
A Map For Monitoring PostgreSQL
Avatar for Lukas Fittl lfittl
2
400
Monitoring Postgres at Scale
Avatar for Lukas Fittl lfittl
1
470
Monitoring PostgreSQL at Scale
Avatar for Lukas Fittl lfittl
4
280
Postgres Performance for App Developers
Avatar for Lukas Fittl lfittl
2
320
Hacking PostgreSQL to Gain SQL Parsing Superpowers
Avatar for Lukas Fittl lfittl
1
620
PostgreSQL at a Web Startup
Avatar for Lukas Fittl lfittl
3
610
Advanced pg_stat_statements: Filtering, Regression Testing & more
Avatar for Lukas Fittl lfittl
4
810

Other Decks in Programming

See All in Programming
コーディングルールの鮮度を保ちたい / keep-fresh-go-internal-conventions
Avatar for NAGATA Hiroaki handlename
0
230
Rethinking API Platform Filters
Avatar for Vincent Amstoutz vinceamstoutz
0
150
仕様漏れ実装漏れをなくすトレーサビリティAI基盤のご紹介
Avatar for Kuniwak orgachem
PRO
7
3.1k
20260315 AWSなんもわからん🥲
Avatar for Chiaki Okamoto chiilog
2
170
PHPのバージョンアップ時にも役立ったAST（2026年版）
Avatar for Atsushi Matsuo matsuo_atsushi
0
240
条件判定に名前、つけてますか？ #phperkaigi #c
Avatar for Hiromi Hishida 77web
2
770
PHP でエミュレータを自作して Ubuntu を動かそう
Avatar for memory m3m0r7
PRO
2
140
Linux Kernelの1文字のミスで 権限昇格ができた話
Avatar for rona rqda
0
2.1k
20260313 - Grafana & Friends Taipei #1 - Kubernetes v1.36 的開發雜記：那些困在 Alpha 加護病房太久的 Metrics
Avatar for ChengHao Yang tico88612
0
230
Agentic AI: Evolution oder Revolution
Avatar for Lars Roewekamp mobilelarson
PRO
0
190
テレメトリーシグナルが導くパフォーマンス最適化 / Performance Optimization Driven by Telemetry Signals
Avatar for shiro seike seike460
PRO
2
140
PHP 7.4でもOpenTelemetryゼロコード計装がしたい！ / PHPerKaigi 2026
Avatar for Arthur arthur1
1
390

Featured

See All Featured
CoffeeScript is Beautiful & I Never Want to Write Plain JavaScript Again
Avatar for Sam Stephenson sstephenson
162
16k
Winning Ecommerce Organic Search in an AI Era - #searchnstuff2025
Avatar for Aleyda Solis aleyda
1
1.9k
Reality Check: Gamification 10 Years Later
Avatar for Sebastian Deterding codingconduct
0
2.1k
What’s in a name? Adding method to the madness
Avatar for The Alliance productmarketing
PRO
24
4k
Refactoring Trust on Your Teams (GOTO; Chicago 2020)
Avatar for Rebecca Miller-Webster rmw
35
3.4k
B2B Lead Gen: Tactics, Traps & Triumph
Avatar for Sophie Logan marketingsoph
0
84
The Curse of the Amulet
Avatar for Matthew Lei leimatthew05
1
10k
Measuring & Analyzing Core Web Vitals
Avatar for Philip Tellis bluesmoon
9
790
Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design
Avatar for Aarron Walter aarron
275
41k
Marketing Yourself as an Engineer | Alaka | Gurzu
Avatar for Gurzu gurzu
0
160
Claude Code どこまでも/ Claude Code Everywhere
Avatar for nwiizo nwiizo
64
54k
Designing for humans not robots
Avatar for Tammie Lister tammielis
254
26k

Transcript

  1. GraphQL ❤ PostgreSQL The Easy Way to Persisting Data in

    React @LukasFittl

  2. Lets talk about State

  3. https://xkcd.com/1653/

  4. State

  5. State State State State

  6. State State State State State State State

  7. State Store

  8. State Store “The Server”

  9. Serverless != Stateless

  10. “The Server” “The Server” “The Server”

  11. “The Server” “The Database” “The Server” “The Server”

  12. “The Server” “The Database” “The Server” “The Server”

  13. <===> State <===> <===>

  14. Picking a Database

  15. MySQL MongoDB PostgreSQL CockroachDB RethinkDB Cassandra Dynamo

  16. MySQL MongoDB PostgreSQL CockroachDB RethinkDB Cassandra Dynamo

  17. Why PostgreSQL?

  18. 1. Fast & Reliable 2. Deploy Anywhere 3. 100% Open

    Source, Community Included Why PostgreSQL?

  19. 1. Fast & Reliable 2. Deploy Anywhere 3. 100% Open

    Source, Community Included Why PostgreSQL?

  20. 1. Fast & Reliable 2. Deploy Anywhere 3. 100% Open

    Source, Community Included Why PostgreSQL?

  21. Advanced Query Planner It also has: UPSERT Complex Types JSONB

    JOINs Window Functions CTEs High Availability LISTEN/NOTIFY

  22. What We’re Going To Build

  23. Dashboards & Stuff

  24. Dashboards & Stuff

  25. None

  26. github.com/ FormidableLabs/react-music

  27. None

  28. Lets build a GraphQL Backend for react-music

  29. GraphQL + PostgreSQL + react-music = BeatQL github.com/lfittl/beatql

  30. Choosing a Backend Library

  31. graphql-js + pg-promise

  32. graphql-ruby + pg

  33. postgraphql https://github.com/calebmer/postgraphql

  34. [ $ new library ]

  35. [ $ new library ]

  36. graphql-js + pg-promise + dataloader

  37. Figuring Out The Schema

  38. Songs, Sequencers, Instruments

  39. SQL!

  40. None
  41. None
  42. None
  43. None

  44. GraphQL!

  45. None
  46. None
  47. None

  48. Sample Data

  49. None

  50. Based On relay-starter-kit

  51. github.com/lfittl/beatql

  52. data/

  53. data/database.js

  54. None
  55. None
  56. None
  57. None

  58. data/schema.js

  59. None
  60. None
  61. None
  62. None

  63. Getting Only The Data You Need

  64. None
  65. None
  66. None
  67. None

  68. data/database-helpers.js

  69. Avoiding N+1 Queries

  70. DataLoader!

  71. None

  72. data/database-helpers.js

  73. client/

  74. client/components/ App.js

  75. None
  76. None

  77. [ Demo ]

  78. @LukasFittl github.com/lfittl/beatql FormidableLabs/react-music