I am very interested in graphql's approach to provide a thin layer between client and server and how easy of accessing the data from server and giving out the data to client. I have been reading and learning for a while and below are resouces that I think is very helpful in learning this relative new technology which I believe that it will become one the the player in API world very soon.
- Awesome way to learn graphql
- The same provider of another great tutorial of learning meteor. Very great starting point.
- Graphql explained from former Apollo engineer.
- One of the choice to keep going apart from the offical graphql doc
- Former Apollo engineer teaching how to build Graphql servers
- Build one graphql server yourself!
- Full-stack grapnel + react tutorial
- connection the dots, client <-> server
- Graphql RFC specification
- Dive deeper
Sheatsheet
Video
- Graphql At Facebook
- It is kind of a summary of a talk of How Facebook organise their Graphql code, especially how to handle business logic and permissions from Facebook. It is a summary but very important to know. It is just GOLD!
- GitHub engineer announcing their graphql API
- github has provided a graphql API in production that every one can try building app with it
Npm Package
- Ths official graphql repo
- Corated list of learning material or packages
- More materials, learnign, examples, etc.
- Spawn a express server with grahpql api
- A promise version of mongodb
Schema examples
- https://github.com/kadirahq/graphql-blog-schema/blob/master/src/schema.js
- https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js/blob/master/src/__tests__/starWarsSchema.js
- Must clone and try out the example from facebook and also how to test your schema.
Graphcool example app
- https://github.com/graphcool-examples
- Graphcool is a serverless graphql backend, really good for building fast App, learn graphql by building mobile app using ReactNative, sounds great right?
Key Notes:
- AST -> an abstract syntax tree
- root query fields
- arguments for specifying any set of fields
- Assigning variable
- Keyword: mutation, fragments, query
- Fragments: fragments are the way to group commonly used fields and reuse them.
- Query Variables: We need to write queries with the complete syntax to use query variables.
- Input types
- Scalers such as Int, String, Float and Boolean
- Enums
- Arrays of the above types. { arunoda: author(_id: "arunoda") { ...authorInfo }, pahan: author(_id: "pahan") { ...authorInfo }, indi: author(_id: "indi") { ...authorInfo } }
fragment authorInfo on Author { _id, name, twitterHandle }