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GraphQL Without Hype

GraphQL Without Hype

Łukasz Szymański

April 03, 2017
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  1. szymanskilukasz GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a

    runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data
  2. szymanskilukasz How ? 'resolve' => function ($rootValue, $args, $context) {

    // return something from your existing backend; }
  3. szymanskilukasz Facebook's GraphQL schema - over 4 years old -

    1,000s of types at this point, - under active change by 100s of engineers
  4. szymanskilukasz Facebook's GraphQL schema - over 4 years old -

    1,000s of types at this point, - under active change by 100s of engineers - has never needed a versioned breaking change
  5. szymanskilukasz Facebook's GraphQL schema - over 4 years old -

    1,000s of types at this point, - under active change by 100s of engineers - has never needed a versioned breaking change - and still supports 4-year old shipped versions of iOS and Android apps (which unfortunately are still being used)