A Brief History of GraphQL
Talkat Open Source Leadership Summit 2019 · on Tuesday, 2019-03-12· at 09:30· The Ritz-Carlton Ballroom·
summary
GraphQL originated to fix Facebook's mobile News Feed pain: many REST round trips, fragile client models, and stale docs. A prototype called Supergraph became a query language where clients request exactly the shape they need, enabling a single network round-trip and static types that allow compile-time checks and eliminate frequent API versioning — Facebook remains still on v1 after seven years. Community implementations now exist in over a dozen languages and companies like Airbnb, Netflix, Twitter, and GitHub use it; a GraphQL Foundation formed with Facebook, AWS, IBM, Intuit, Neo4j, Apollo and others.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:23Lee Byron @leeb
- 1:20Facebook was built for the web
- 2:01Boy, were we wrong
- 2:50Native iOS News Feed with a RESTful API
- 3:01We immediately encountered issues
- 3:25Tedious code & process
- 4:47Fast on the network
- 5:00Robust static types
- 5:29Empowering
- 5:57Documentation is a first-class citizen
- 6:42React.js open sourced
- 7:08Does it make sense to open source GraphQL?
- 9:07LINUX FOUNDATION
- 9:20GraphQL Foundation
- 9:32Accelerate GraphQL Standards
- 9:52Open collaboration of GraphQL companies
