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

Learn about how the folks at Hexact Inc. have been handling the live 1 million GraphQL web socket subscriptions on Google Cloud Kubernetes. Tigran Bayburtsyan explains how their infrastructure is set up and how they used a custom-built PubSub library. The article also discusses the benefits to using GraphQL subscriptions to provide more interactive UI to users.

Ming Horn from NerdWallet shares some tips and learnings on migrating several screens from Redux to Apollo GraphQL. She takes you through the steps of migration, from writing GraphQL schema and resolvers to making your first query. She mentions the two complex issues she ran into with the schema and Redux store and how she solved the issues with a HOC.

This in-depth guide details how to implement some of the best practices in securing a GraphQL API from abusive queries by clients. Sample code snippets are provided throughout on how to limit query complexity, automatically persist queries, rate limit based on server time, and more. The guide includes resources to help protect your GraphQL endpoint and apply best practices for authentication and authorization.