Community
This is a fun event for people based in Amsterdam! booking.com is hosting a new format for programmers that want to learn about GraphQL. Instead of building up a greenfield project, the attendees will be given a broken app and will have to fix it by implementing GraphQL queries, mutations and writing a schema.
The 48 hour online hackathon React Riot takes place in 2 weeks! If you haven't already, find a team and register - it'll be lots of fun! This post has 3 tips for you to increase your chances of winning. Plus it introduces the perfect hackathon tech stack (spoiler: it uses GraphQL ?) !
Articles & Tutorials
The APIs Gurus with a write-up about their project GraphQL Voyager. An interesting backstory and lessons learned about creating a popular GitHub repository.
If you have developer friends that are still using REST APIs and are working with Redux, go and show them this article. A fantastic guest post on the Apollo blog by Peggy Rayzis about the productivity boosts they got from switching to GraphQL & Apollo.
The engineers at Khan Academy came up with an interesting architectural idea when using React and Apollo on the frontend: Query Components. A Query Component encapsulates the query and Apollo glue logic into one component. Read more about it on their blog!
