GraphQL has become increasingly popular because it addresses a number of issues that are common with APIs, and specifically RESTful APIs. For example, GraphQL supplies a single endpoint for all your API calls, it is self-documenting and it returns only the data you request. In this session, Daniel Phiri introduces GraphQL concepts and how to utilize them in building a web application.

Getting Started with GraphQL

This talk will get you up to scratch with GraphQL, a query language for APIs and help you understand it’s use case, history and how to use data from a GraphQL API in the front end of your web application.