GraphQL in real life
summary
The New York Times reports building a whole new feature on GraphQL and rolling it into apps within a few days using Apollo for code generation and runtime concerns; the talk shows a working stack: compile-time safety, optional caching, and persistent queries in practice, compares to Retrofit, and notes coroutines require small adapters. Concrete gotchas: the schema and .graphql files must exist or the build fails, mocks need __typename, generated packages must be configurable across modules, and the NPM-backed plugin stalls when offline.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:45GraphQL vs REST
- 8:44Apollo
- 15:25Testing
- 15:55Mistakes
- 16:38Handling changes
- 19:41Naming fields
- 20:49Mock responses
- 21:17Semantics
