GraphQL List

This file aggregates curated popular links for learning GraphQL. More reference about ITCS can turn to AwesomeList: Guide to Galaxy, which collects valuable, popular and up-to-date links for CS, including Programming Language, Software Engineering, Server Side Application, Infrastructure, InfoSecurity, Industrial Application, DataScienceAI, Frontend Technology(iOS, Android, RN, Electron), etc.

Overview

• Why GraphQL is the future: 阐述了 GraphQL 与 REST 的对比

• 2017-The GraphQL stack: How everything fits together: A look at caching, tracing, schema stitching, and GraphQL’s future from GraphQL Summit 2017.

• 2017-REST APIs are REST-in-Peace APIs. Long Live GraphQL.: This article is not actually 100% in favor of GraphQL. There is a very important section about the cost of GraphQL’s flexibility.

• 2018-GraphQL at the REST-aurant: A tasty introduction to GraphQL.

Backend for Frontend

• 微服务下使用 GraphQL 构建 BFF 的实践: Backend for Frontends(以下简称 BFF) 顾名思义，是为前端而存在的后端 (服务) 中间层。

• BFF - backend for frontends

• Pattern: Backends For Frontends

• BFF@SoundCloud

vs REST

• 2016-From REST to GraphQL：从 REST 到 GraphQL 的思维变迁。

• rest-api-downfalls-and-dawn-of-graphql

• 2017-GraphQL vs. REST: Two ways to send data over HTTP: What’s the difference?

• Give it a REST: use GraphQL for your APIs!

Resource

• GraphQL Specification: This is a Draft RFC Specification for GraphQL, a query language created by Facebook in 2012 for describing the capabilities and requirements of data models for client‐server applications.

• Awesome GraphQL 🗃️: Awesome list of GraphQL & Relay.

• 2017-How to GraphQL #Series#: How to GraphQL is a fullstack tutorial website to learn all around GraphQL! It was built by Graphcool and many amazing contributors.

Case Study

• 2018-How GraphQL Replaces Redux: GraphQL is a server side query language. Redux is a client-side state management library. How could one replace the other?

• 2017-GraphQL First in practice at Quri: Bringing GraphQL efficiencies to non JavaScript environment

• 2017-Why We’re Betting on GraphQL: Universe is betting big on GraphQL. We’ve been hard at work this quarter aiming to deliver a richly typed, documented, publicly available GraphQL interface into our existing event ticketing platform.

• 2017-Adding GraphQL to a REST and microservices backend: Client developers at Coursera love GraphQL’s flexibility, type-safety, and community of support, and we’ve made that well known.

• 2019-PayPal：如何在你的公司扩展 GraphQL？: 去年，PayPal 将 GraphQL 引入了技术堆栈，彻底改变了开发人员思考数据、获取数据和构建应用程序的方式。本文作者在一年前曾写过一篇 GraphQL 最佳实践的文章，当时受到了广大读者的欢迎。这篇文章同样也是一篇精彩的总结，可以当作公司部署 GraphQL 的指南。

Showcase

• 2017-Hacker News Clone React/GraphQL: This project is a clone of hacker news rewritten with universal JavaScript, using React and GraphQL.

• 2018-基于 SPA 架构的 GraphQL 工程实践

Tutorial

• 2017-A Front End Developer’s Guide to GraphQL: In this post, we’ll walk through a couple of hands-on examples to show you how integrating GraphQL into your application will solve many pain points working with remote data.

• 2018-An Introduction to GraphQL: It is a methodology that directly competes with REST (Representational state transfer) APIs, much like REST competed with SOAP at first.

• 2018-GraphQL: Everything You Need to Know: The purpose of this article is to highlight the major features associated with GraphQL along with discussing the significant pros and cons associated with this particular API specification.

• Launchpad : Launchpad is an in-browser GraphQL server playground. You can write a GraphQL schema example in JavaScript, and instantly create a serverless, publicly-accessible GraphQL endpoint. We call these code snippets that live on Launchpad “pads”.

Schema

• 2018-Modularizing your GraphQL schema code: How to split up your schema definition, resolvers, and Query type into multiple files

Mutation

• 2017-Modeling GraphQL Mutations: In this article, I would like to explore one possible way how you can approach this challenge with examples from our own GraphQL API.