GraphQL Links

“GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data. GraphQL provides a complete and understandable description of the data in your API, gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more, makes it easier to evolve APIs over time, and enables powerful developer tools.” from GraphQl.org

My interest in GraphQL has been growing since I started seeing more links in JSWeekly , podcasts and on Twitter. My habit is to start collecting links, reading summaries and plan to dig in more later. I’m currently trying to get PWA’s figured out first.

Basics

GraphQL.org is the main place to learn about GraphQL

Facebook GraphQL code

The Fullstack Tutorial for GraphQL

• Basics of GraphQL
• Build a Simple GraphQL API Server With Express and NodeJS - May 31, 2017
• React, Relay and GraphQL: Under the Hood of the Times Website Redesign - June 29, 2017
• Sharing data in a Microservices Architecture using GraphQL
  • June 12, 2017
  • “Integrate services by their databases is not a good option, an architecture that takes advantage of the best of each technology shall bring better results (as always).”
• DZone - An Overview of GraphQl - October 12, 2017
• REST versus GraphQL - REST versus GraphQL
  • “In this article, we’ll be taking a technical look at REST versus GraphQL, comparing and contrasting the two API specifications.”
• GraphQL: Everything You Need to Know - March 6, 2018
  • About comparing REST and GraphQL: “GraphQL, on the other hand, is a query language devised to work over one endpoint through HTTP, upgrading performance and adaptability.”
  • “Although GraphQL solves quite a few problems that we have, it still would be difficult to choose any one API specification as you should most probably have both at some point.”
• Why GraphQL: Advantages, Disadvantages & Alternatives - July 3, 2018
• GraphQl Guide ebook

Balance and the right tool for the job

##.Net

• .Net Example
  • seen in this issue
• .Net Core Middleware project
• Nuget library

Lessons Learned and Companies using GraphQL

• A story about an experience using GraphQl - June 16, 2017
• Lessons from 4 years of GraphQL Nov 3, 2016
• GraphQl at Yelp video - Oct 16, 2017
• REST vs GraphQL APIs, the Good, the Bad, the Ugly - March 16, 2018
  • “GraphQL APIs can be exciting new technology, but it is important to understand the tradeoffs before making such architectural decisions”
  • “In fact, GraphQL vs REST is like comparing SQL technologies vs noSQL”
• https://stackshare.io/posts/companies-using-graphql-in-production-2018 - July 19, 2018
  • “GitHub engineers have likened their GraphQL adoption to switching from XML to JSON.” * How Big Companies Are Using GraphQL in 2018 - September 2018
• GraphQL - A Retrospective - 2 years later - December 2018

Why we should look into GraphQL

• Give it a REST use GraphQL for your API - Jan 5, 2017
• Rest APIs are REST-in-Peace APIs. Long Live GraphQL. - July 24, 2017
• GraphQL vs. REST - June 27, 2017
• So what’s this GraphQL thing I keep hearing about? - April 11, 2017
• REST 2.0 Is Here and Its Name Is GraphQL - May 17, 2017
• Why We’re Betting on GraphQL - August 15, 2017
• Tweet with link to Building #React Apps with #GraphQL, Graphcool & #Apollo - June 8, 2017
• Is GraphQL The Future? - May 05, 2018
• REST vs. GraphQL: A Critical Review - June 2018
• Stackshare rating
• GraphQL is not OData - September 2018

Practice and Live APIs

• Github is using GraphQL and you can play around with their API.
• Use Bustle’s API

Videos

• CorkDev: Intro to GraphQL March 4th, 2017
• Going Serverless with GraphQL - Steve Faulkner NDC 2017 June, 2017
• Building a GraphQL Server [Part 1] - What Is GraphQL? - July 31, 2017
• Sashko Stubailo - The GraphQL Stack: How everything fits together - November 7, 2017, 38 minutes long
  • “GraphQl is component like for data”
  • Easy to write a server now with the tooling
  • send all requirements for a unit of your UI in one request
  • questions:
    • Caching
      • Cache-Control header in REST
      • Ideas for GraphQL:
        • not inside the GraphQL api
        • cache results
        • GraphQL Gateway from Apollo
          • in between clients and server, does stuff like caching, etc
        • Apollo client, caches are “everywhere in your life”
        • GraphQL extensions
        • Apollo Cache Control standard
          • per-path cache hints
        • in the API and the client
    • Transparency - Tracing and Errors (minute 19:55)
    • Modularity
• Get a Grip on GraphQl - good 30 minute introduction talk focused on Kotlin for the server side from Kotliners 2018

Examples

• GraphQL project - from Corey House
• ASP.NET Core GraphQL project template

Podcasts

• JAM Stack Adopting GraphQL with Graphcool - February 2018
• JAM Stack
• GraphQl Radio
• API Academy episode
• JavaScript Air - Transitioning from REST to GraphQL
• GraphQl at Coursera episode
• DotNetRocks with Steven Faulkner - July 27, 2017
  • DotNetRocks with Corey House - July 26, 2018
    • Includes a comparison of OData and GraphQL. OData was ahead of it’s time and probably solves many of the same issues as GraphQl, but isn’t as widely adopted.
• GraphQL? Here is what you need to know! - Syntax.fm - January 10, 2018

React

• Reducing our Redux code with React Apollo June 9th, 2017
• Hhttps://hackernoon.com/how-graphql-replaces-redux-3fff8289221d March 9th, 2018

Aurelia

• Aurelia and Apollo Github project

Apollo

• Main site for Apollo Client
  • “The flexible, production ready GraphQL client for React and native apps.”
• Github
• Learn Apollo
• GraphQl subscriptions and Redis

ASP.Net Core

• GraphQl with ASP.Net Core - a series - March 05, 2018
• Adding a GraphQL Endpoint to Your ASP.NET Core API - February 15, 2019

Newsletter

• GraphQl Weekly
  • @graphqlweekly

Tools

• Graphiql Visualization tool - great for learning about an API
• The GraphQL backend for mobile & web developers - GraphiQl demo
• LaunchPad from GraphQl.com
• graphql-up will create a GraphQL API for you
  • “graphql-up is the fastest way to get a free & ready to use GraphQL API. It works out of the box with Apollo & Relay and supports GraphQL subscriptions.”
• “Represent any GraphQL API as an interactive graph” - Github project
• The Emerging GraphQL and Serverless Stack for Building Static Web Sites - September 14, 2017
• GraphQL-Tools 2.0 with Schema Stitching from Apollo - October 4, 2017
• An interactive GraphQL exploration tool built with React
• GraphQl Genie

There are many more, these are just the ones I’ve come across.