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

A deep dive into how coupling design system components with GraphQL schema through collaborative cross-functional workshops can reduce sprawl, ensure consistency, and enhance productivity at both the UI and API layers.

Watch Jeff Auriemma reacting to "Why, after 6 years, I’m over GraphQL."

Notes from GraphQLConf 2026 and Working Group Day at Meta: AI agents meeting GraphQL schemas, the Composite Schema federation standard, and a community building what comes next.

GraphQL fragments let each component declare exactly the fields it needs, eliminating overfetching and the hidden dependencies that make GraphQL codebases painful to refactor. Tagged with javascript, graphql, typescript, react.

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GraphQL meets the demands of a modern API stack in the AI era. Here are Jeff's take on the reasons why.

The GraphQL Meetup in San Francisco is the biggest one in the world. Lucky for everyone else they record all the talks ❤️ Here's what happened at the Meetup this week:

Tomer Elmalem: Yelp's Public API (starts at 26:53)
Zane Claes & Geobio Boo: GraphQL at AirBnB (starts at 47:28)
Lee Byron: GraphQL Subscriptions (starts at 1:38:26)

Everybody loves the video courses on egghead.io for their high-quality. In this short video (~ 5 min) you learn how to deploy a GraphQL API with a single click using graphql-up and explore it in a Playground.

Lee Byron not only gave a great talk at ReactEurope 2017 in Paris and shared some really interesting insights into the development of Relay Modern. He also actually released Relay Modern live on stage. Definitely a gem you don't want to miss!

The Freecom fullstack tutorial series teaches you how to build a clone of the Intercom support chat. In this chapter of the series, you'll learn how to implement serverless functions to connect the app with the Slack API.

Yet another company that introduces a GraphQL API for external consumption - Yelp is kicking off their developer beta program with nothing other than GraphQL! The usage guide and intro to GraphQL is also super helpful. It's awesome to have another passenger on the GraphQL train, everyone say hi to Yelp!

Follow this amazing in-depth tutorial by @helferjs to understand how optimistic UI works with Apollo Client. The unfortunate reality about HTTP requests is the latency and even using GraphQL can't prevent that - but using optimistic UI, you can hide it from your users!

This part of the Freecom Tutorial series deals with securing your app with advanced permissions. By following along the video, you learn how to easily setup a secure authentication and authorization setup for your React app. This is an important part of every app so make sure to check it out!

Listen as Tom Bray talks about the benefits and challenges Ticketmaster faced when adopting GraphQL. What he shares about going from proof of concepts to GraphQL in production, GraphQL affecting workflows of several autonomous teams and more is very insightful, so take a look!

Learn how to effectively use GraphQL variables to make your GraphQL queries and mutations dynamic and more flexible. Using GraphQL variables has several benefits and is also super useful in combination with the GraphQL directives skip and include.

It's easy to get started quickly with GraphQL on Angular using Apollo Client. Follow this guide to learn how to run your first GraphQL query and mutation with apollo-angular in Angular 4.

Join @AbhiAiyer and @_schickling as they welcome @danimman for the first episode of GraphQL Radio to listen to her insights on all there is to learn about GraphQL tooling. If you want to find out Danielle's perspective on topics like GraphQL First development, Apollo Optics and possibles changes to GraphQL, make sure to check it out!

In the third chapter of the Freecom tutorial series you learn everything about getting realtime functionality with GraphQL! Start using GraphQL subscriptions in your app with Apollo Client and its websocket capabilities and stay on top of all data changes. It really can be that easy!

Now is the perfect time to learn about GraphQL - we couldn't agree more with @SachaGreif's assessment. This article explains what GraphQL actually is and gives an amazing overview of all the different available resources in the GraphQL landscape. Thanks for the great write-up and the shoutout!

Throughout the tutorial series you will learn how to setup a Intercom clone using a GraphQL backend. In part 2, you'll take a deep dive into queries and mutations with Apollo Client and React. The corresponding video allows you to get your hands dirty and follow along directly in the code. Enjoy!

If you've been wondering what exactly a GraphQL query can consist of, checkout this great article by stubailo! From queries over fragments and directives, it covers all the terminology you need. Time to become a GraphQL expert!

A great article by @kmelve that highlights how easy it is to combine different tools to end up with cool apps. In this case, a Norwegian dictionary for funny or weird expressions used by consultans. The tech stack could be described as a slack-webtask-graph.cool-website-zapier-slack webapp - sounds confusing? Have a look at the beautiful illustration to see how easy it really is!

@dhaivatsays explains the three core responsibilities of a GraphQL client. The article also mentions a few common misconceptions and how Apollo Client ties into this. It's a great resource that helps understanding the maze of tools and libraries out there. Oh, and there's cows too, so don't miss it!

It's hard to know about all the similarities and differences of Relay and Apollo, as both GraphQL clients come with their own set of great features. Luckily, the guys @graphcool got us covered and share their great insights to help with choosing the right tool for your next project. Highly recommended resource!

Watch this webinar where different trade offs for modeling the data of a booking system are being discussed. The types and fields are then created using the neat UI editor of Graphcool. As an additional treat, there's a demo that showcases how easy it is to add custom business workflows using Graphcool mutation callbacks. Super cool!

This is an incredibly helpful tutorial that sets you up with a React application using Next.js and Graphcool. Following along, you can quickly setup a working university catalog app with GraphQL. The source code is available on Github. We really have to say, great job by @alexedev!

An informative article about the GraphQL Schema Definition also referred to as IDL. IDL is the most concise way to specify a GraphQL schema and it already powers great tools like GraphiQL. It's high time to learn more about it!

This post is an alternative part 2 for the Fullstack React + GraphQL tutorial by the folks over at Apollo. You'll learn how to connect an Apollo application to an actual GraphQL endpoint so that you can interact with a fully functional server. This resource is super helpful if you want to get started writing GraphQL apps in React!

Vulcan is an extra utility layer on top of Meteor, React, and Apollo that helps you build your apps. It comes with features such as data loading and updating, generating and handling forms, user accounts and smarter fragments. Vulcan aims to be the glue between all the fancy technologies available and it looks super cool. Go check it out!

The new imperative store API for Apollo grant you complete control over the data in your cache. This is especially useful for updates after a mutation. If you did not look forward to the release of version 1 yet, now you surely should!