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

Eric Baer with part 2 of his smashing article series about GraphQL - a must-read! The article received lots of love on Twitter, particularly by GraphQL co-creators Lee Byron and Nick Schrock: "Eric really gets what we were trying to do." (Nick); "Yeah, nailed it, Eric! Excellent write up." (Lee).

It is great to see that more language communities other than JavaScript are starting to adopt GraphQL and expand the tooling space. GQL is a set of Groovy DSLs and AST transformations built on top of GraphQL-java to make it easier building GraphQL schemas and execute GraphQL queries without losing type safety.

The Apollo Dev Tools are a must-have when working with Apollo Client. They allow to inspect your cache or run queries and mutations using graphiql at runtime of your application. In this post, James Baxley from the Apollo team explains the recent improvements and new features that have been added to the latest version of the Dev Tools.

A new GraphQL client for React is hitting the stage! Created by Ken Wheeler himself, urql aims to provide a simple API for using GraphQL together with React. It comes with additional features like render props and uses a different caching mechanism than Apollo Client and Relay.