GraphQL and WordPress

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Jason Bahl (author of WPGraphQL) about GraphQL, headless WordPress, frameworks in WordPress, React in WordPress, and more! Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at LogRocket. Show Notes 4:55 - Data in WordPress 6:26 - WPGraphQL 10:31 - What were your initial thoughts/first experiences with GraphQL? 16:58 - Does it use MySQL queries or wpQuery? 19:36 - How does authentication work? 24:38 - What does the WP local dev experience look like in 2019? 26:49 - What about deployment? How do you handle migrating data? 30:10 - How does WPGraphQL handle mutations? 32:46 - What are the preferred hosting methods for a headless WordPress setup? 36:44 - Do you see any push back about giving up much of what WordPress gives you out of the box? 41:23 - What are techniques for preventing all of WordPress from loading When you’re using it exclusively for the API? 43:40 - How does WPGraphQL support custom post types, taxonomies and fields, etc? Links WPGraphQL Kyle Mathews GraphQL Gatsby WordPress Meteor Apollo GraphQL GraphiQL WPGraphiQL WAMP Flywheel Local by Flywheel PhpStorm Lando Laravel React Netlify Jason Schuller Leeflets Press75 Advanced Custom Fields WPGraphQL Tax Query WPGraphQL Meta Query WPGraphQL for Advanced Custom Fields Jason’s Twitter WPGraphQL Twitter ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Figma Wes: CalDigit TS3 Plus Thunderbolt 3 Dock Jason: Local by Flywheel Shameless Plugs Scott’s new course - Dev Tools & Debugging Wes - All Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Jason - WPGraphQL Jason - Gatsby Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.
0:06.0	Strap yourself in and get ready.
0:08.0	Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss.
0:10.5	Welcome to Syntax, the podcast with the T tastiest web development treats. This is an
0:15.9	episode I've been really excited about for a couple of months now because it
0:21.0	sort of merges all of my interests into one. So we have
0:25.1	Jason Ball on who's the author of W.P. GraphQL and we're going to be talking
0:30.7	all about like WordPress, headless
0:33.2	WordPress, GraphQL and WordPress. I'm sure we'll talk about like frameworks
0:37.8	like things like react in WordPress so I'm really excited about it. We'll
0:41.5	get into that and introduce Jason in just a second.
0:43.5	Today we are sponsored by two awesome companies. One is Sanity and the other is Log Rocket. We'll talk about them part way through the episode.
0:51.6	With me as always today is Mr. Scott Tlensky.
0:54.6	How are you doing today, Scott?
0:55.9	I'm doing super good.
0:57.7	I think this might be the single most sleep deprived episode
1:01.1	of Syntax since the start of recording, Wes and I are. sleep deprived episode of syntax since our
1:02.6	since the start of recording,
1:04.1	Wes and I are both newly, I don't know,
1:06.8	newly christened with the new babies.
1:08.3	I have no idea how to say that, yeah.
1:10.8	My kids have been running around telling people, so for those who don't know, I just had my baby boy, which is Kit Boss, is his name, and we had him what, three or four days ago now and yeah I've
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