Building Better APIs with GraphQL

Description

This course teaches you everything you need to know about GraphQL. GraphQL was open sourced by Facebook in 2015 and is a fresh new approach to API development. GraphQL will replace REST in the coming years.

• We build two projects from scratch so you have everything you need to know to use GraphQL

What you’ll learn:

• How the GraphQL schema works so you can use GraphQL on your own servers
• How to query GraphQL so you can access and mutate your data
• We’ll start simple, creating a schema with dummy data
• Then we’ll hook up our with schema to a live Star Wars API
• We’ll learn how to query the data, filter the data, and optimize the queries with DataLoader
• We’ll cover how to put the schema on an Express server so you can get access to your data with just HTTP requests
• Then we’ll get started with mutations, the GraphQL version of POST, PUT, and DELETE of REST
• We’ll build a blog API using just GraphQL mutations and queries, tying everything we’ve learned so far
• We’ll cover the state of GraphQL Subscriptions, an emerging and evolving standard