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GraphQL Best Practices

GraphQL Best Practices

By : Artur Czemiel
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GraphQL Best Practices

GraphQL Best Practices

By: Artur Czemiel

Overview of this book

In the ever-evolving landscape of web development, GraphQL has emerged as a powerful query language that addresses the limitations of traditional REST APIs. This guide delves deep into GraphQL, starting with its foundational principles and swiftly advancing to complex topics that will equip you with the skills you need to understand this technology. As you progress, you’ll cover advanced concepts such as schema design, security enhancements, and error handling. You'll also explore essential topics such as federation and the transition from REST to GraphQL, gaining a comprehensive understanding of these critical areas. The book helps you learn through practical examples in TypeScript, guiding you through building scalable and secure GraphQL backends. Additionally, you’ll get up to speed with the intricacies of frontend integration. By the end of this book, you’ll have the skills you need to implement real-world GraphQL solutions, creating efficient and robust applications that meet modern web development demands.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Part 1 - Why GraphQL?
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Part 2 - Schema-First Design Patterns
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Part 3 - Exploring Possible Ways to Use GraphQL
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Part 4 - Advanced GraphQL
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Part 5 - From an Idea to a Working Project

Unveiling the Holy Grail of Communication – GraphQL

GraphQL seemed to appear both recently and also a long time ago. We live in such times that it’s hard to define. We can definitely consider the year 2015 as the beginning of GraphQL, as that was when Facebook decided it was the right time to make GraphQL open source and available to everyone. Although GraphQL was primarily created to limit data transfer, as a side effect, it also reduced the need for extensive communication within the development team.

I became deeply interested in GraphQL technology around 2018. Since 2016, I had been trying to solve the communication problem between frontend and backend teams by building a TypeScript-based system that generated a REST application skeleton for backend developers and “enforced” them to implement a system with the appropriate types for each endpoint and return exactly what was specified by the system designer (who worked in a visual graph editor). In...

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