GraphQL – The good and the bad

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 as well as gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more…. Source: https://scotch.io/tutorials/graphql-the-good-and-the-bad

Build a Simple Web App with Express, React and GraphQL

GraphQL and React have both become quite popular in the last few years, and it’s safe to say they go together like avocado and toast. A GraphQL server can be written in Node and lets you easily create a flexible API using JavaScript classes and functions…. Source: https://developer.okta.com/blog/2018/10/11/build-simple-web-app-with-express-react-graphql

A Beginner’s Guide to GraphQL

GraphQL is a query language and runtime that we can use to build and expose APIs as a strongly-typed schema instead of hundreds of REST endpoints. Your clients see the schema. They write a query for what they want. They send it over and get back exactly the data they asked for and nothing more…. […]

Deploy a fullstack Apollo app with Netlify

Apollo makes it easier than ever for product developers to integrate data from any backend into a React app. With new releases like Apollo Server 2.0 that make it super simple to set up a production-ready GraphQL layer, only one question remains: Where do you host your code?… Source: https://blog.apollographql.com/deploy-a-fullstack-apollo-app-with-netlify-45a7dfd51b0b

Layering GraphQL on top of REST

GraphQL is quickly replacing REST as the standard for which data is queried, fetched and transformed between the frontend and backend. And developers are looking to explore and reap its benefits in their brown-field projects…. Source: https://blog.apollographql.com/layering-graphql-on-top-of-rest-569c915083ad

GraphQL with Apollo for your React & React Native applications

I’m working on a React Native application that lists restaurants around you, their menus which can be drilled down to the topping that you may have on your pizza. The application was using a RESTful API. The API worked just fine without an issue…. Source: https://medium.com/@shemseddine/graphql-with-apollo-for-your-react-react-native-applications-58b50190c13d