Building native mobile apps with GraphQL

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Shows that GraphQL powers native apps at scale (Facebook iOS since 2012, hundreds of millions of users) and demonstrates a concrete Swift approach: Apollo client with Swift code generation that emits immutable, query-specific types, uses a normalized cache as single source of truth, and supports optimistic updates and offline persistence. Includes examples of generated nested types, fragment-based interfaces to avoid duplicate types, and how cache-driven UI updates reduce round trips and latency.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:30What is Apollo
3. 7:52GraphQL clients
4. 14:43Nested types
5. 16:40Query specific types
6. 17:46Consistency
7. 19:48Other topics
8. 23:03Outro

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