Best kept secrets for 2019: GraphQL + Prisma

You've spent years perfecting your REST setup just to throw it out. Now you're one of the cool people spending countless hours on your overly complex GraphQL resolvers. If you're in search for a better developer experience - Prisma might be the answer. It's a fresh data-layer to build high-performance GraphQL servers that will dominate JavaScript ecosystem in 2019. And I'll tell you why.

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1. Best kept secrets GraphQL + Prisma ⚡ 2019 GraphQL + Prisma
2. ⚡ Current state of JS ⚙ Why GraphQL Why Prisma Demo Gist
3. Domas Bitvinskas domasbitvinskas.com Startup fanatic, co-founder @ Honestive Freelance developer with React / GraphQL / Prisma
4. Preface This is just my subjective opinion.
5. JavaScript Ecosystem #2018
6. ES6 is the new default {…props}
7. Angular kinda A
8. Vue kinda V
9. React still
10. Machine Learning in browser ⚡ Tensorflow.js Tensorflow.js
11. TypeScript & Flow getting popular what: string +
12. async / await everywhere Promises dead
13. GraphQL
14. GraphQL is cool
15. Fetch what you need only posts { title author { avatarUrl } }
16. Batch queries
17. Schema stitching
18. Way better DX than REST
19. Typical GraphQL server structure Schema / TypeDefs type Query { posts: [Post!]! post(id: ID!): Post! } type Post { id: ID! title: String }
20. Typical GraphQL server structure Resolvers { Query: { posts: (_, args) => Post.findAll(), post: (_, { id }) => Post.findOne({ where: { id } }) } }
21. Cool, where’s the problem?
22. No real standard of how messy your resolvers should be
23. …
25. A data layer that replaces traditional ORMs in your application architecture. Open-source: github.com/prisma/prisma ⭐ 11.6k
26. Client API Server Database
27. Client API Server Database Prisma Server
28. Interact with your database the same way you communicate with a GraphQL server
29. Define database tables as GraphQL schema
30. Free CRUD
31. Demo Demo
32. Client Database Prisma Server
33. Client API Server Database Prisma Server Prisma Client
34. yarn global add prisma
38. const resolvers = { Query: { user: (_, args) => prisma.user({ id: args.id, }), },
39. Postgres MySQL Mongo Prisma supported databases
40. JavaScript TypeScript Flow Go Prisma clients
41. Deployment ⚡ Heroku ⚡ Prisma Cloud …where you deploy Docker Deployment
42. Prisma makes it easy to develop great GraphQL API’s Short version
43. 2019 - GraphQL adoption will continue grow - Prisma will grow rapidly as a remedy for GraphQL mess 2019
44. Thanks! ⚡ /Domas Thanks! domasbitvinskas.com