Panel:
- Erica Sadun
- Andrew Madsen
Special Guest: Derrick Hathaway
In today's episode, the iPheaks panel, Erica, and Andrew speak with Derrick Hathaway about GraphQL. Derick is a mobile app developer and works at LifeOMic. Derrick is on The Freelance Show to discuss exactly what GraphQL is about. This is a great episode to understand the structure of GraphQL on the client and server side, and many other facets and features.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
- What is GraphQL, why are you using it.
- How does GraphQL differ from REST?
- Where does this live?
- The server component of GraphQL
- What do you use to use GraphQL?
- GraphQL requests under the hood
- Where is the state of the technology?
- Apogee
- Subscriptions
- Security
- How to get started?
- GraphiQL - https://developer.github.com/v4/explorer/
- https://github.com/skevy/graphiql-app
- Query validation at compile time
- And much, much more!
LINKS:
- https://lifeomic.com
- https://cloud.google.com/apigee-api-management/
- https://developer.github.com/v4/explorer/
- https://github.com/skevy/graphiql-app
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/derrickhathaway
- Twitter handle - @derrh
- https://github.com/derrh
Picks:
Erica
Andrew
Derrick