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

Tim Suchanek and Max Stoiber officially launched GraphCDN on ProductHunt today. GraphCDN is a GraphQL edge cache that sits in front of your GraphQL API as a gateway and caches your queries in 58 worldwide data centers. You can invalidate specific objects (e.g. <code>purgeUser(id: 5)</code>) and GraphCDN will purge any cached query result that contains that data. On top of that, they also give you powerful analytics about your queries and mutations and protect your GraphQL API with features like DDOS protection and query depth limiting.

Most people who use GraphQL haven’t read the spec, often because it sounds or looks intimidating. In this post, Loren Sands-Ramshaw goes over the essentials of the query language section of the spec, including the schema, types, descriptions, scalars, enums, and more. Follow along with Loren to learn more about the GraphQL spec.

As more clients rely on GraphQL to query data, we witness performance and scalability issues emerging. Queries are getting bigger and slower, and net-new roll-outs are challenging. The web & mobile development teams working on Orders & Fulfillments spent some time exploring and documenting our approaches. On mobile, our goal was to consistently achieve a sub one second page load on a reliable network. After two years of scaling up our Order screen in terms of features, it was time to re-think the foundation on which we were operating to achieve our goal. We ran a few experiments in mobile and web clients to develop strategies around those pain points. These strategies are still a very open conversation internally, but we wanted to share what we’ve learned and encourage more developers to play with GraphQL at scale in their web and mobile clients. In this post, I’ll go through some of those strategies based on an example query and build upon it to scale it up.

In this article, Hetav Desai shows how you can use GraphQL with Axios and Redux, including error handling. A basic understanding of how GraphQL, Axios, and Redux work will be helpful as you follow along with the tutorial. Follow along with Hetav to learn more about how GraphQL, Axios, and Redux can be used together.

In short, GraphQL is a protocol that defines an algorithm for searching information in a database. It was born in the depths of good old Facebook as a response to the request of users and developers. The challenge faced by the creators was to optimize the algorithm for processing search queries on the platform.