GraphQL

Does REST feel kind of old school and tedious? Do you have endpoints for everything? Fear not! GraphQL is here to save the day. Or is it?

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1. GraphQL
2. About me ! Christian Leo-Pernold "#$%&'(⛰*+,- . @mazedlx ⭐ github.com/mazedlx 0 mazedlx.net 1 repod.at 1 gusch.fredl.at 2/55
3. Let's talk about APIs 3/55
4. REST REpresentational State Transfer 4/55
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6. 1. GET /episodes/1 6/55
7. 1. GET /episodes/1 2. GET /actors/1 7/55
8. 1. GET /episodes/1 2. GET /actors/1 3. GET /actors/2 8/55
9. 1. GET /episodes/1 2. GET /actors/1 3. GET /actors/2 4. GET /actors/3 9/55
10. 1. GET /episodes/1 2. GET /actors/1 3. GET /actors/2 4. GET /actors/3 5. GET /actors/4 10/55
11. 1. GET /episodes/1 2. GET /actors/1 3. GET /actors/2 4. GET /actors/3 5. GET /actors/4 6. GET /reviews/1 11/55
12. 6 calls to the API 12/55
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14. GET /episodes/1 14/55
15. 15/55
16. But then things change 16/55
17. GET /episodes/1 GET /episodes_with_everything_i_need/1 GET /episodes_with_everything_also_highres_images/1 GET /episodes_with_everything_but_for_mobile/1 GET /episodes_with_everything_for_iphone_only_v2/1 GET /episodes_with_everything_but_without_images/1 ... GET /episodes_with_everything_but_without_reviews/1 17/55
18. 18/55
19. What if we could just tell the API what we want? 19/55
20. GraphQL 20/55
21. A query language for your API 21/55
22. Created by Facebook 22/55
23. 23/55
24. Open Source 24/55
25. PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, Go, JavaScript, Node, Angular, React, Vue, Ember and more 25/55
26. Facebook GitHub Shopify Yelp Pinterest 26/55
27. GraphQL isn't: 27/55
28. a silver bullet 28/55
29. a REST replacement 29/55
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35. Problem ❌ N+1 35/55
36. REST 36/55
37. GraphQL 37/55
38. Solution ✅ Batching with Dataloaders 38/55
39. Problem ❌ Caching 39/55
40. GET /episodes/1 40/55
41. POST /graphql 41/55
42. How does one cache a POST request? 42/55
43. Solution ✅ Caching with Dataloaders 43/55
44. Problem ❌ Schema Duplication 44/55
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46. 46/55
47. Solution ✅ Schema Generators 47/55
48. Problem ❌ Poor Performance 48/55
49. Solution ✅ Query Caching 49/55
50. It's Demo Time! Laravel app (^7.0) Users, articles and comments 1.000 articles, 3.000 comments, 4.000 users seeded Eloquent relations are set 50/55
51. GraphQL is (kind of) self-documenting 51/55
52. & PHP 52/55
53. Laravel https://github.com/nuwave/lighthouse Symfony https://github.com/overblog/GraphQLBundle 53/55
54. Plain PHP https://github.com/webonyx/graphql-php GraphQL Framework in PHP https://github.com/railt/railt 54/55
55. !" Slides can be found at speakerdeck.com/mazedlx 55/55