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

Together with the GraphQL team at Facebook and many other collaborators from the GraphQL community, the guys from Graphcool have worked out a unified standard to write configuration files in projects using GraphQL: graphql-config. Along with this standard, they're also releasing the beta version of the graphql-cli and thus laying the foundation to greatly enhance developer experience and improve interoperability of different tools in the future.

Apollo Client uses a NetworkInterface as an abstraction for the outgoing connections to the server. They're now breaking up this core component and provide a new primitive that allows for a more modular composition of required functionality: apollo-link. Read this announcement blog post to learn how you can try it out today!

Two new chapters have been added to the React & Relay tutorial on How to GraphQL. The first one teaches you how to implement realtime updates in your app using GraphQL Subscriptions, the second one explains the use of Relay's PaginationContain API to implement pagination. Set aside an hour of time over the weekend and give it a try!

This in-depth article by Samer Buna provides a great comparison of REST and GraphQL. It's the kind of content you want to show to your manager and coworkers to convince them to give GraphQL a shot in your next project!