CategoryGraphQL

March 16, 2023 — In this article, William Lyon explores how to build a full stack GraphQL application that takes advantage of the API Routes feature of Next.js API to combine your GraphQL server and front-end React applications into a single framework. Read more…

March 7, 2023 — In this article, Adam Cowley examines the Graph behind GraphQL and demonstrates why Neo4j could be the best fit for your next project. Read more…

November 1, 2022 — If building a GraphQL API backed by a native graph database sounds interesting or at all helpful for the problems you’re trying to solve as a developer, perhaps you’d like to give the open-source Neo4j GraphQL Library a try. Let’s take a closer look at the reasons why! Read more…

November 4, 2021 — Within the last decade, technologies like GraphQL have changed how we build web apps and how they communicate with each other. GraphQL provides certain benefits over REST APIs — let’s find out what they are. Read more…

April 20, 2021 — Let’s explore the plugins providing GraphQL servers to WordPress. When should we use WPGraphQL, and when the GraphQL API for WordPress? Is there some advantage of one over the other, or some particular task that is easier to accomplish with one of them? In this article, we will find out. Read more…

March 9, 2021 — In the world of serverless applications, Webiny is becoming a popular way to adopt the serverless approach of building applications by providing handy tools that developers can build their apps upon. In this article, we will look into what Webiny is and try out the headless CMS as a data source for a Gatsby blog application. Read more…

December 21, 2020 — In this article, we’ll learn how to build an event-based application and send a web-push notification when a particular event is triggered. We’ll set up database tables, events, and scheduled triggers on the Hasura GraphQL engine and wire up the GraphQL endpoint to the front-end application to record the stock price preference of the user. Read more…

December 15, 2020 — In this episode, we’re talking about GraphQL. What is it, and how does solve some common API problems? Drew McLellan talks to expert Eve Porcello to find out. Read more…

November 27, 2020 — Reactive variables work with GraphQL Apollo and offer you the same functionality with Redux or Context API without the complexity or extra layers that come with these other tools. A reactive variable in GraphQL Apollo is easy to use and doesn’t have as much setup process compared to Redux. Read more…

October 29, 2020 — This guide will teach you the basics of Next.js API Routes. We will start by explaining what they are and why API Routes are useful compared to REST or GraphQL APIs. Then, we will guide you through a step by step tutorial on how to build your very first GraphQL server with Next.js and the Github API. Read more…