GraphQL APIs – Through the Looking Glass
summary
Claims that modern GraphQL APIs should be easy to build, secure, realtime and portable, and shows concrete tooling and patterns: GraphQL Yoga and Envelop with plugins like envelop armor for parsing/execution limits (default cost model: scalar 1, object 2, multiplier 1.5, default cap ~5000), response-cache and file upload support, plus fragment-based typed errors and error masking. Demonstrates realtime over server-sent events (SSE) enabling subscriptions, stream and defer for incremental delivery, and a single yoga instance that runs on Node, Cloudflare Workers, Bun and Deno.
AI-written summary · about
chapters (7)
- 0:00The state of GraphQL
- 4:34The GraphQL prophecy
- 6:24Error handling strategies
- 15:15Securing GraphQL APIs
- 20:28Core API features
- 25:13Real-time and performance
- 34:26Deploying everywhere
related talks
48mGraphQL Today and Tomorrow
58mGraphQL -- Flexible APIs for Adaptive Clients
26mBatteries Included Reimagined - The Revival of GraphQL Yoga, Uri Goldshtein
19mGraphQL: Accelerating Digital Transformation Through Modern APIs.
55mGraphQL - APIs the New Way
54mGraphQL — Usable API or Just Another Hype?
28mCurious Use Cases of GraphQL
23mGraphQL in real life