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GraphQL? Here is what you need to know!
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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
Graph Cool
53:00
Apollo Link
Apollo VS Redux
56:00
Graphiql
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