A weekly newsletter of the best news, articles and projects about GraphQL

In this article, Marc-André Giroux breaks down what the GraphQL Dataloader pattern is and why data loading issues exist with GraphQL. He provides examples of performance issues with various executions of GraphQL queries. Giroux also provides his thoughts on lazy loading and emphasizes an asynchronous approach to resolvers.

This blog sheds some light on the current state of the GraphQL ecosystem and the decision between code-first or SDL-first schema development. Rohit Ravikoti analyzes both implementations and offers insight into the risks and tradeoffs each approach has. He includes a couple of suggestions on how your team can stay organized and choose the approach that fits best.

This post shares some interesting insight on the different API patterns, Back-end for Front-end (BFF) and One-Size-Fits-All (OSFA), and how they could be affected by the usage of GraphQL. Phil Calçado explains how BFFs can optimize endpoints/payloads and questions if BFFs are even necessary with GraphQL. He also challenges single schema data models and how integration databases can be problematic.