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This article distills GraphQL's two most common architectural use cases: <b>API Gateway</b> vs <b>GraphQL Native</b> applications. With the gateway pattern, GraphQL is used as a proxy layer on top of existing APIs. GraphQL Native backends are "designed from the ground up to use GraphQL", thus more gearing towards the idea of a "GraphQL database" where GraphQL provides an abstraction over an actual persistence store (like MySQL or MongoDB).

The "React & Apollo" fullstack tutorial on How to GraphQL has been updated to use Apollo Client 2.0 as well as the new Graphcool Framework. Check it out to learn how to implement features like authentication or realtime subscriptions in your React applications.

In this post, Chris Ball gives an overview of the Graphcool Framework. Starting with instructions for boostrapping a GraphQL server, over deploying it locally with Docker, up to integrating serverless functions and separating different development environments for staging and production, this article covers all relevant aspects of working with Graphcool.