Understanding GraphQL Mutations
You can't spell GraphQL without the QL: the query language. But don't let the term query suggest that GraphQL is only about getting data. GraphQL is way more than that.
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How The Upload Scalar Works
Read moreWe don't have a mailbox. The postman will not deliver mail to us where we live. We know. We were mad about it too before we realized that we get a free PO BOX at the local post office. All of our mail and all of our packages are delivered through one tiny box. Our PO BOX handles letters just fine. They can easily be delivered and collected through this box. However, packages present a different problem. The mail carrier cannot put our packages inside of our tiny mailbox. Instead they store the package in a large locker and leave a small key inside of our PO BOX. We collect the key and use it to find and unlock the locker that stores our package.
Building a GraphQL Server in Five Minutes
Read moreIt's 5:55pm on a Friday night. It's your night to cook, and you don't have a recipe. This wouldn't be that big of a deal if you hadn't bragged about the new taco recipe that you were going to cook on Friday night. But you had no recipe. You lied.
Fetching Data from a GraphQL API
Read moreIt's common to hear GraphQL described as a REST killer. Here to slash your REST services, to end your endpoints. But today, let's not focus on conflict. Let's consider where GraphQL and REST share something in common: HTTP requests.
Five Useful Introspection Queries
Read moreWe all love type systems, or at least, most of us can agree that type systems are generally good. They can help us eliminate bugs. They provide a formal structure which makes it possible incorporate tooling and automation. They give us a way to communicate about the structure of our code. So if type systems are good, then you should be in love with GraphQL. GraphQL is a type system for your API.
What is the GraphQL Spec?
Read moreEvery language has rules. This is true for spoken languages as well as software languages. The English language has a large document of its rules: the dictionary. It defines all of the words that can be used. It provides examples of how to use each word. For the most part, we all agree upon these rules when we speak with one another.
Migrating to GraphQL
Read moreThere are a lot of reasons to move from REST to GraphQL. You might have read plenty of articles and watched plenty of presentations about all of the reasons to adopt GraphQL. If not, here is a short list of reading to get you obsessed with the need to migrate to GraphQL:
