GraphQL? Here is what you need to know!
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Wes Bos
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🗓️ 10 January 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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02:40
- What is GraphQL anyways?
- GraphQL Relational Data
04:45
- How is it different than REST?
08:30
- GraphQL's self documenting Nature
09:20
- You don't need to replace your existing REST api
- It can sit infront of multiple APIs
10:00
- GraphQL Resolvers
- Apollo Link State does local data as well
11:50
- GraphQL on the client side
- Relay
- Apollo
- GraphQL Request
- Lokka
- Nano
13:30
- Why we like Apollo
- Setup is amazingly fast
15:00
- Pagination
- Refreshing of data
18:00
- The GraphQL Core Concepts
- Queries
- Mutations
- Filtering and Sorting
- It's not really a query language
21:00
- How do you say Schema?
22:00
- More on Resolvers
22:50
- Mutations
- Updating the cache
27:00
- Using with existing APIs
- Do you have two schemas now? One for MongoDB and one for GraphQL?
35:00
- CMS and Static Site Generators that run on GraphQL
- Gatsby
- WP-GraphQL
- GraphCMS
45:00
53:00
- Apollo Link
- Apollo VS Redux
56:00
- Graphiql
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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 Tolinsky and West Boss. |
| 0:10.4 | And welcome to Syntax and today we are talking all about Graph QL. I'm Scott |
| 0:18.6 | Tylinsky and with me as always is West Boss say hello everybody good to be back I guess you didn't really miss us but we |
| 0:26.6 | we took about three weeks off for Christmas so happy to be back a little bit rusty |
| 0:32.3 | though yeah apologize for any sort of rust ahead of time, I think. |
| 0:36.7 | So yeah, this episode is sponsored by Snipcart and Freshbooks. |
| 0:43.0 | So we'll be talking a little bit more about Snipcart and Fresh Books through the course of this episode. |
| 0:48.2 | So thank you so much for both Snipcart and Fresh Books for Sponsoring. Awesome. |
| 0:53.0 | How is your holiday, Scott? |
| 0:55.0 | It was great, yeah. |
| 0:57.0 | We flew with Baby to Michigan. |
| 1:00.0 | So Baby's first flight and everything like that, he did great. He was a little fussy on the way back, but you know, it was cool. It was as good as it could have gone. It was one of those things I was stressing out about like, you know, the airport sucks enough. yeah having it with a child I never done it before so yeah it |
| 1:17.1 | all would good and the trip was great got to see family got to hang on Michigan I have some |
| 1:21.8 | lacroy oh man the biz. |
| 1:24.4 | Did you see someone on Twitter |
| 1:26.1 | tried LeCroy for the first time |
| 1:27.8 | after hearing this podcast? |
| 1:30.2 | I love that because LeCroy liked that tweet and I was instantly like that's the most validated I think that's like an internet celebrity liking one of your tweets like I think that |
| 1:40.4 | LaCroy liking some of our tweets there might have been like high up for me. |
| 1:45.0 | Yeah, let's shut it down after that. |
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