Dave and Ilya discuss the delights and trials of using GraphQL with Ember in production, then give their thoughts on the Ember Component Templates Co-location RFC.

00:00 Introduction

• Workout routines

01:37 GraphQL with Ember

• GraphQL: https://graphql.org/
• Apollo: https://www.apollographql.com/
• JSON API Spec: https://jsonapi.org/
• Queries and Mutations
• Handling Errors
• Tooling around GraphQL
  • Graph.Cool/Prisma.io: https://www.prisma.io/
  • GraphQL Voyager: https://apis.guru/graphql-voyager/
  • Types
• Ember Apollo Client: https://github.com/ember-graphql/ember-apollo-client
• Relay - Declare the data your components need with GraphQL, Relay determines how and when to fetch your data https://facebook.github.io/relay/

26:00 GraphQL rough edges

• Missing from GraphQL: Ember Data computed properties
  • Solution: Apollo link state https://www.apollographql.com/docs/link/links/state
• Guide/narrative content is lacking
• Managing fragments
• Server-side tutorials

34:00 Biggest benefit to GraphQL: Server-side implementation

36:00 Co-location RFC comments

• Component Templates Co-location #481 https://github.com/emberjs/rfcs/pull/481
• Our add-on: ember-template-component-import https://github.com/crashco/ember-template-component-import