A GraphQL Survival Kit
summary
Covers three concrete integration problems and fixes: slow resolver chains require profiling and either prefetching into a DB or breaking queries into granular requests and using server-side scheduling or subscriptions to warm caches; ambiguous mutations demand schema-first design and explicit operations like addTrackToProfile so clients know inputs and outputs; and errors arrive as 200 responses with an errors array, so clients distinguish network/transport errors from GraphQL errors and test with tools like GraphQL Playground and Apollo local cache.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:40What is GraphQL
- 3:48Why GraphQL is cool
- 8:43Slow query responses
- 12:14Naming things in schemas
- 16:46Handling errors in GraphQL
- 20:28Key survival tips
- 21:56Why GraphQL is worth it
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