GraphQL for mobile developers

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GraphQL is useful for iOS when paired with Apollo client and a Django/Graphene backend: one endpoint serves precise queries, shrinking a film-list payload from ~18.8 KB to ~2.0 KB in the demo. The workflow uses the introspection schema to generate API.swift and speeds development (one and a half backend devs moved faster). Watch for hazards: base64 ID issue requiring decode, missing subscription support, Apollo cache defaulting to cached data, and offline complexity that led to a separate Realm sync.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:24ABOUT ME
3. 1:14INTRODUCTION
4. 1:46WHAT IS IT?
5. 3:03THIS IS ALL GOING TO GO A BIT...
6. 3:40EXAMPLE - STAR WARS IMDB
7. 5:28WHAT JUST HAPPENED?
8. 5:40HOW DO WE DO THIS ON IOS?
9. 8:04ADDING A NEW SCREEN TO STAR WARS IMDB
10. 8:31CREATING A NEW QUERY
11. 12:43IN ACTION..
12. 13:16THE REST ALTERNATIVE
13. 14:43MUTATING DATA
14. 15:17HANDLING ERRORS
15. 16:13WHAT WE'VE COVERED SO FAR...
16. 16:35CASE STUDY
17. 17:14PITFALL O: UPDATES
18. 18:02IDs
19. 20:01SUBSCRIPTIONS
20. 20:54THE CACHE • Apollo has fancy caching
21. 22:16OFFLINE
22. 23:30OTHER PITFALLS
23. 25:25CONCLUSION
24. 25:43SHOULD YOU USE GraphQL?
25. 27:06FURTHER READING
26. 27:42QUESTIONS?

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