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where they keep going back
- GraphQL Galaxy3 editions2020–2022
- GraphQLConf3 editions2023–2026
- JNation2 editions2022–2024
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who talks about the same things
- Uri Goldshtein37 talks
- Pavel Chertorogov11 talks
- Nader Dabit51 talks
- Aaron Powell28 talks
- Ryan Chenkie13 talks
- Tejas Kumar66 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Simplifying MCP Tool Sprawl With GraphQL | GraphQLConf 2026 | 2026-05-19 |
Claims GraphQL can act as a single MCP layer to stop per-backend tool bloat and the team proves it by building an SDK that introspects GraphQL, exposes a… | ||
| LLMs for Web Developers | Connect.Tech 2024 | 2024-11-18 |
Walks through concrete patterns web devs can code today: basic prompt inferencing, RAG with a vector DB (example uses 200-token chunks, overlap, embeddings)… | ||
| GraphQL in the Era of Server Components | Connect.Tech 2024 | 2024-11-18 |
Claims GraphQL remains valuable when many frontends or microservices need one reusable API and federation; for one-to-one apps server components, REST or TRPC… | ||
| GraphQL in the Era of React Server Components | GraphQLConf 2024 | 2024-09-10 |
Compares React Server Components (Next.js/Remix) doing direct data fetches or even SQL from components with GraphQL’s role as a federated BFF for multi-team… | ||
| Leveraging LLMs to Build Intuitive AI Experiences for Web | C3 Dev Festival 2024 | 2024-06-14 |
Today every developer is using LLMs in different forms and shapes, from ChatGPT to code assistants like GitHub CoPilot. Following this, lots of products have… | ||
| Leveraging LLMs to Build Intuitive AI Experiences With JavaScript | JSNation 2024 | 2024-06-13 |
The workshop explores leveraging LLMs and generative AI with JavaScript, focusing on incorporating AI in JavaScript, leveraging TensorFlow.js for ML, and using… | ||
| Going Beyond Prompt Engineering | JNation 2024 | 2024-06-04 |
Shows how to turn LLM calls into real apps by adding retrieval and tooling: implements retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with a vector database and… | ||
| Building AI Applications for the Web | React Day Berlin 2023 | 2023-12-08 |
This workshop focuses on AI for front-end developers and building with Lengtchain JS. Participants will learn how to create a custom MyGPT application, explore… | ||
| The State of GraphQL Clients in 2023 | React Alicante 2023 | 2023-09-28 |
Survey data from 2022 shows GraphQL Hooks surprisingly topping client popularity, with Apollo scoring high on satisfaction but dragging bundle size and… | ||
| Go Beyond the Spec With Custom Directives | GraphQLConf 2023 | 2023-09-19 |
GraphQL allows custom directives beyond the spec and they work as either type-system vs executable directives; built-ins include @skip @include @deprecated… | ||
| GraphQL is more than a Typed System | CityJS Singapore 2023 | 2023-07-26 |
Argues that GraphQL is not just a type system but a data-layer and query language that pays off when one backend must serve many clients or many backends must… | ||
| GraphQL for React Developers | GraphQL Galaxy 2022 | 2022-12-09 |
This workshop focuses on GraphQL for Front-End Developers, comparing it to REST APIs and exploring its operations and subscriptions. The workshop covers schema… | ||
| GraphQL for React Developers | React Day Berlin 2022 | 2022-12-02 |
This workshop focuses on GraphQL for front-end developers. It explains the advantages of using GraphQL over REST APIs, such as having a single endpoint and… | ||
| Web applications of the future with TypeScript and GraphQL | Conf42 JavaScript 2022 | 2022-11-17 |
Shows how a GraphQL schema becomes TypeScript types using graphql-code-generator and a live demo that produces a generated file graphql.tsx with mapped scalar… | ||
| GraphQL is no excuse to stop writing docs | GraphQL Conf. 2022 | 2022-09-29 |
GraphQL provides a schema and an introspection query but that only yields a reference, so GraphiQL/Playground/Apollo Studio and similar tools expose types and… | ||
| Web Applications of the Future With TypeScript and GraphQL | React Alicante 2022 | 2022-09-29 |
Shows an end to end workflow: a live Hacker News–style frontend queries Practical Dev through a stepson GraphQL layer, generates TypeScript types with graphql… | ||
| Why GraphQL is Perfect for Microservices | JNation 2022 | 2022-06-07 |
Claim: GraphQL becomes a single composable data layer over domain microservices, letting teams expose per-service schemas and combine them into a supergraph… | ||
| How Your Bundle Size Affects The Climate | JSConf Budapest 2022 | 2022-06-02 |
Web payloads matter: the average website is four times bigger than 10 years ago, and measuring with website carbon.com shows concrete impact — a 10 MB bundle… | ||
| Kiling BFFs with GraphQL and Next.js | React Conference Live 2022 | 2022-04-01 |
Claims that BFF services can be removed by running a GraphQL layer inside Next.js API routes, demonstrates an actual demo that merges two REST endpoints into… | ||
| GraphQL as a Data Layer for Your UI | TheJam.dev 2022 | 2022-01-26 |
Explains how to get a production GraphQL data layer without backend changes by using Stepsen to combine REST, databases or other GraphQL sources into one… | ||
| When (Not) To Create A GraphQL Server | GraphQL Galaxy 2021 | 2021-12-09 |
Claims that a GraphQL API can be auto-generated from SDL and linked to existing backends, producing resolvers and a server that deploys serverless so… | ||
| Building a Serverless GraphQL API For Any Datasource With StepZen | GraphQL Galaxy 2021 | 2021-12-09 |
This workshop is about building a serverless GraphQL API using StepZen. It covers the code-first and schema-first approaches, connecting multiple data sources… | ||
| Why GraphQL is Perfect For Microservices | apidays Paris 2021 | 2021-12-07 |
Argues that GraphQL maps cleanly onto domain‑based microservices by exposing a schema per service, then composing them in a centralized data layer so clients… | ||
| Killing BFFs with GraphQL and Next.js | React Advanced 2021 | 2021-10-22 |
Claims that a Next.js app can replace separate BFFs by hosting a GraphQL endpoint at pages/api/graphql, running an executable schema with express-compatible… | ||
| Integrate Stage | StrapiConf 2021 | 2021-04-22 |
Multiple short demos show concrete integrations and whether they actually work: a MeiliSearch Strapi plugin indexes live collections (demoed with a search… | ||
| Enriching Commerce Data In Headless Architectures | StrapiConf 2021 | 2021-04-22 |
Shows how to merge a Saleor GraphQL API and a local Strapi GraphQL API into one unified schema using Next.js API routes, Nexus, and Apollo Server. Uses schema… | ||
| State Management in React with Context and Hooks | React Summit Remote Edition 2021 | 2021-04-14 |
This workshop focuses on state management in React using the Context API and Hooks. The Context API is now a viable option for state management and provides… | ||
| TypeScript and GraphQ | JSWorld Conference 2021 | 2021-02-22 |
A 50 minute workshop that shows a working Express GraphQL server plus a React front end wired with TypeScript, starting with plain graphql-request then moving… | ||
| The Future of GraphQL panel | Postman Galaxy 2021 | 2021-02-02 |
Panel debates whether GraphQL becomes the default API access language while operational tooling catches up: predictions include vendors offering hosted GraphQL… | ||
| Let's Talk GraphQL With Your Services | GraphQL Galaxy 2020 | 2020-12-07 |
Converts existing REST services (Salesforce example) into a GraphQL data layer that leaves legacy code untouched, using AST-driven schema generation and… | ||
| Server-side Authentication in GraphQL | GraphQL Galaxy 2020 | 2020-12-07 |
This workshop on GraphQL Authentication covers topics such as JSON Web Tokens (JWTs), OAuth flows, and different approaches to handling authentication in… | ||
| GraphQL Without a Database | Frontend Love 2020 | 2020-10-01 |
Shows how to wrap existing REST/OpenAPI endpoints into a single GraphQL endpoint using Node.js and TypeScript with Apollo Server and Apollo Client. Describes… | ||
| React Superpowers with GraphQL and TypeScript | React Live Online Conference 2020 | 2020-09-10 |
Shows that generating TypeScript from a GraphQL schema with graphql code generator removes manual types, produces ready-to-use useGetProductsQuery hook, and… | ||
| Web applications of the future with TypeScript and GraphQL | ConFrontJS 2019 | 2019-12-07 |
Claims that a GraphQL schema becomes the single source of truth and that graphql-code-generator generates TypeScript types from GraphQL schema and creates… | ||
| Testing GraphQL: From Zero To Hundred Percent | NDC Oslo 2019 | 2019-06-17 |
Practical roadmap for getting to 100% GraphQL test coverage: start with static typing (TypeScript) and unit tests, add integration tests that mock the schema… | ||
| GraphQL Will Do To REST What JSON Did To XML | FrontCon 2019 | 2019-04-03 |
Claims GraphQL replaces many REST calls with a single endpoint schema that returns exactly the fields a page needs; demo uses Apollo and the GraphQL Playground… | ||
| GraphQL Will Do To REST What JSON Did To XML | NDC London 2019 | 2019-01-30 |
Argues GraphQL replaces REST by exposing a single endpoint that returns flexible shapes so a marketplace UI (product + reviews + paginated offers) stops… | ||
| Boilerplates Are The New Copy-Paste | dotJS 2018 | 2018-11-09 |
Shows that common JavaScript boilerplates—especially in React ecosystems—bring far more code, files and transitive dependencies than projects actually need… | ||
| GraphQL Will Do To REST What JSON Did To XML | React Native EU 2018 | 2018-09-05 |
GraphQL replaces multiple REST endpoints in a React Native movie catalog example: a single query returns thumbnail, ratings, cast and reviews, reducing about… | ||
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