A weekly newsletter of the best news, articles and projects about GraphQL

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Jamies reaction video to a recent Reddit question on what's the point of GraphQL client libraries over fetch.

Execute and compile highly optimized code with GraphQL JIT.

Contextualized analytics for any GraphQL API.

Check out Jamies recommended top 5 tools you should be using as a frontend developer in 2023 when working with GraphQL.

The latest graphql.wtf episode explores how to create your own GraphQL Yoga route handler with Next App Router.

What's a GraphQL compiler, and why would you want to (re)write one in Rust? How does Rust measure up compared to JavaScript (and other alternatives) when it comes to building this kind of software? Robert Balicki (engineer at Meta on the React Data team) talks about the decision and process of rewriting Relay's GraphQL Compiler in Rust, before diving into lessons learned. Watch to learn not only about how Relay is used and why they decided to rewrite its compiler in Rust, but also about the DOs and DON'Ts of writing compiler-like things.

Jameson and Savannah share some of the ways Reddit are using Apollo and GraphQL to deliver on their mission to bring community, belonging and empowerment to everyone in the world. After 4 years of GraphQL successfully powering the iOS home feed, the gateway eventually became unwieldy. So Reddit turned to federation. Once a federated graph was in place Reddit were able to build services in individual subgraphs, allowing engineers to work in unison, but independently. And inevitably opening the doors to some exciting projects...

Deploy your GraphQL Yoga server automatically to Cloudflare Workers using GitHub Actions.

We've shared garph on the newsletter a couple of weeks ago. But now Jamie has created an awesome graphql.wtf episode which we simply have to share as well.

HTTP, WebSockets, Server-Sent Events. This talk by Denis was given at GraphQL Zurich and explains the various transports available for GraphQL services, efforts related to standardizing them, and libraries that help you get started.

Having made a bet on GraphQL Federation 3 years ago, Netflix knows a thing or two about the potential pitfalls. Stephen Spalding walks us through a couple of these pitfalls, which he calls Microservice Madness and Schema Anarchy.

Recording of this weeks GraphQL Zurich Meetup with talks from Tim Suchanek on "How to protect your GraphQL API's load", Behrooz Tahanzadeh on "Learning GraphQL the Hard Way!" and Pascal Senn on "Beyond N+1: The true potential of DataLoader". It's a long recording, but definitely worth it!

In this talk from GraphQL Summit 2022, Sasha Solomon considers whether GraphQL is a trap head-on. By better understanding how misapplying the technology can lead us into real traps, Sasha shows us how to lean into what GraphQL is good at. Giving us a consistent, intuitive, and maintainable schema that is usable by everyone and puts clients first.

In this video, we'll explore GraphQL over HTTP Specification and how we can audit GraphQL APIs to ensure compliance.

A platform-agnostic network inspector specifically built for GraphQL. Clearly see individual GraphQL requests, including support for query batching.