GraphQL Schema Design — Building Schemas Correctly (version 2)
summary
Covers practical design principles for building GraphQL schemas that make client development faster, easier, and less error-prone. Discusses common pitfalls that add boilerplate and complexity and gives concrete schema design techniques to avoid those issues.
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chapters (26)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:19Why naming rules matter
- 6:49CamelCase for types and constants
- 8:17Custom scalar types
- 10:53Using enum types
- 11:54Meaningful field names
- 13:00Required fields and null
- 14:49Grouping related fields
- 16:36Grouping arguments
- 17:20Strict scalar types for arguments
- 19:32Filter argument for lists
- 21:16Sort argument
- 23:26Pagination and limit
- 24:10Pagination response structure
- 25:38Cursors for infinite lists
- 27:28Mutation rules
- 28:54Namespacing mutations
- 31:27Boolean operations in mutations
- 32:10Bulk mutations
- 33:12Mutation arguments
- 34:16Unique input types for mutations
- 35:20Mutation result return
- 36:45Status and errors return
- 37:52GraphQL hairy schema
- 39:38Documentation and versioning
- 40:21Q&A
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