Why GraphQL is the future of API development: Insights from developer Brandon Mathis
Brandon Mathis is a seasoned freelance, full-stack developer from Raleigh, North Carolina. Brandon sat down with the All Things Open team to talk about the evolution and benefits of GraphQL, challenges, considerations, best practices, and much more.
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0:00 - Welcome Brandon
0:08 - Brief introduction
0:35 - What is GraphQL?
3:19 - You’ve been quoted as saying the future is GraphQL. What do you mean by that?
5:36 - What do teams need to consider as they look at possible adoption/implementation?
7:10 - Any best practices that can help the ATO community save time or help people get started more quickly?
9:06 - You run a local meetup from Triangle Developers, tell us more about it.
10:12 - Wrap-up
Key takeaways:
GraphQL is a query language standard that really came to popularity in 2016 -2017
You can install technologies that implement the GraphQL standard. Apollo is a really, really popular one, often used on the front end and on the back end.
GraphQL is the future, but there are some shortcomings. One of the things that teams are going to find is that rate limiting API requests becomes a very interesting challenge.
Make sure you look up the GraphIQL Explorer or any SDK that will implement that inside of your backend system. What that provides you is a user interface that for the most part will run in the web browser.
GraphQL is a type-oriented specification for an API query language. So using languages like TypeScript is extremely helpful. Go on the backend, is really helpful too.
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