GraphQL in an Age of REST

[2016-10-29 Sat 16:58:46] speaker: Yos Riady event: GeekcampSG 2016

Drawbacks of REST

• N+1 select problem
• too many fields returned
• documentation

GraphQL

• query language
• type system

Graphiql

• in browser IDE for GraphQL

express-graphql

• resolver function to retrieve linked entity
• define query roots and resolver functions for these roots