Learn GraphQL in 4 Hours

With the advancement of web technologies and user expectations, many current web developers are struggling with some of REST's limitations. They are being asked to build performant, intelligent, reactive, mobile-friendly applications, while trying to adhere to RESTful best-practices, and spending valuable developer time debating rather than building.

For example:

• When your mobile experience needs to be lightning fast, but your existing API endpoints provide way more data than needed, do you over-fetch or do you create 'simple' endpoints for those resources? And what fields should they have?
• When building overviews or dashboards, do you design custom endpoints that return a number of resource types, or do you progressively load the page while your app makes a series of API calls for each resource type?

In this training session, you will learn about GraphQL, the API query language that Facebook has been using since 2012, and how it solves each of the issues above. You will become familiar with the GraphQL language and its various features like mutations, filters, pagination, and introspection, as well as a hands on experience creating a GraphQL server. We will cover simple server implementations, with examples in Node (JavaScript) and Django (Python), which will help you get started for implementing one in any of the supported server languages: http://graphql.org/code/

Join this live training with Arianne Dee, a professional developer and educator, who has created GraphQL APIs for Django and Node.js and has years of experience teaching science and programming to adults, teens, and children. There will be plenty of time to address your questions and concerns with this new technology, and whether or not it is the right tool for you.