Keynote: GraphQL Clients in 2024
summary
About a third of the room first used GraphQL in client apps and downloads for GraphQL JS, Apollo Client, Relay, urql, GraphQL Code Generator, Apollo Kotlin and Apollo iOS all trend upward this year. Runtime and build optimizations land in Relay 18, Apollo announces a more efficient Swift codegen and Kotlin 2 collaboration, a client-agnostic GraphQL Testing Library appears, React Suspense and server components get first-class client support, and data masking is slated for a 3.12 release while an editor experience like gql tadada emerges.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:47About the speaker and Apollo
- 2:29GraphQL clients' impact and growth
- 4:15Enterprise adoption of GraphQL clients
- 6:01Diversity of GraphQL client libraries
- 7:25Framework integration and innovation
- 9:10Frontier innovations in clients
- 10:12Performance improvements and community stewardship
- 11:36Developer tooling and ecosystem
- 12:41Call to action for users and maintainers
- 13:44Summary and future outlook
