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

In this blog, Dgraph focuses on sharing how GraphQL was chosen as the native query language to build their graph database and the common issues their GraphQL engineers face. Manish Rai Jain explains how Dgraph extends the GraphQL syntax so that any part of a query can be collected in a variable. This blog also offers solutions to the N+1 problem and how to avoid latencies/performance concerns.

Learn more about GraphQL best practices based on the observations PayPal has made while building GraphQL APIs. Mark Stuart discusses the adoption, tooling, and the journey from REST to Batch REST to finally GraphQL. With adoption, PayPal faced some challenges with enterprise scaling, handling authentication/authorization, and assembling a cohesive graph. The article provides great insight into how the engineering team at PayPal handled all the nuances the come with implementing GraphQL.

After Prisma transferred the GraphQL CLI over to The Guild, they completely rewrote the project and closed over 100 issues. In his blog post about it, Urigo shares the updates made to the GraphQL CLI, its new features, and the variety of tools it integrates with. As the project is in an alpha phase, they also seek feedback from users and tools creators!