Hard-Learned GraphQL Lessons: Based on a True Story (Natalie Qabazard & Aditi Garg)

Talk from GraphQL Summit 2018 - Nov 8, 2018
- Aditi Garg is a Software Engineer who wishes the world was written in Javascript and works as a full-stack developer on Trulia’s Local team.
- Natalie Qabazard is a Senior Software Engineer working on the Trulia team at Zillow Group and she actively works with React, Typescript, GraphQL, and AWS.
A beginner GraphQL developer may have questions for which only some answers can be found in docs, blog posts, & threads online. Come hear from 2 Trulia engineers who answered their own questions when building GraphQL data sources. They'll share tips & best practices they established at Trulia.
Learn more: summit.graphql.com

[@mylifestyle5155]

Great & clear information 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@arnobchowdhury9641]

Useful info. On point presentation.

[@ddview]

Great information

[@jpphoton]

Clear and on point.

[@jesulobajohn8468]

The ID issue, can it be solved using uuid?

[@yevhenkozlov286]

amazing speech!
as for #5: if we leave small queries bound to children components but make them run on client only - does it mean all those queries will be run sequentially(even if they can technically go in parallel) for the same reason as at SSR? I mean both Child1.1 and Child1.2 are waiting until Child1 gets its data and render them.

[@yazlmcnngunlugu5987]

yeah I didn't get that part either. I think the root problem stays regardless of you render on client or on server.

[@johnniefujita]

Basically a more expressive load balancer with good docs out of the box right?! I liked the idea

[@TheMaldingZucchini]

Be sure to salt your pasta before boiling it

[@mingzhu8093]

Will be gone in 5 years. Rest rocks!

[@dave97O]

disagree with you a bit here, REST might still be around in 5 years but I doubt this would fade off

[@thomasczthomash1859]

Totally agree with you. REST works great. GraphQL is not a well designed technology and will eventually fall flat when people realise how painful it actually is.

[@francis_n]

@@thomasczthomash1859 Im new to GraphQL, what in your experience has been painful about GraphQL?

[@adamtak3128]

@@thomasczthomash1859 As a new dev GraphQL seems more thought out to me than REST approach.

[@_sumit.gupta_]

Clear and on point.