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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• Wes: The Indicator Podcast
• Scott: You Don't Know JS

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