What if ... How to Achieve GraphQL Domination
summary
Nine years in and roughly 50% of enterprises already touch GraphQL yet adoption stalls because guidance, client patterns and HTTP integration are fuzzy. Proposes three concrete changes: publish clear schema design guidance plus a schema design linter/online reviewer to catch anti-patterns (overuse of non-null, list vs connection), fold core Relay concepts (connections, cursor pagination, global node lookups) into the spec so clients and servers interoperate, and align GraphQL over HTTP (use status codes, remove multi-error bodies, standard curl patterns) for observability and tooling.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker background
- 1:08Current state of GraphQL
- 5:24Fantasy world assumptions for changes
- 11:21Improving GraphQL narrative and schema design
- 15:39Scalable UI architecture with Relay
- 20:40Aligning GraphQL with HTTP standards
- 25:19Summary and Q&A
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