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Alternatives to Caching and the Architecture behind the Graph

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My firm specializes in building developer tools and partnering with outside companies to build great software for them. I'll spare you the details, but this is a new tiered offering model that we are playing around with and I'm eager to get some feedback. Times are tough during COVID-19, so any feedback or suggestion is super helpful! Thank you all so much.

A little about me personally, I'm involved in the NodeJS and GraphQL open source communities :)

This is awesome!

Wow! This is neat!

So, there is literally no difference in how you would handle this with GraphQL vs a traditional RESTful API. All you have to do is pass query variables in your query... and then pass those variables to whatever model method / service RPC you call to grab location data.

If you are using React, you can learn more about request variables here:

http://dev.apollodata.com/react/queries.html

Variables are also how you submit data in mutations.

I highly recommend Apollo for a client side GraphQL implementation. They are the best

If anyone would like to be emailed when full stack GraphQL app post goes live, please provide your info here: https://goo.gl/forms/8KI0cfj8vmLdCOAp2

Interesting, I don't think I've ever used OData. It looks like OData is similar to JSONAPI? GraphQL is strictly a specification and query language for making queries against your API in the same way that your backend makes queries against your database. You can grab as much data as you want in a single request, as you can with certain RESTful protocols like JSONAPI. However, with GraphQL, you don't really have to roll your own protocol implementation. You simply define functions that handle certain portions of your operations by making calls to your model layer or service layer. I would choose GraphQL over JSONAPI any day.

Author here, I'm happy to answer questions about GraphQL if anyone has them!

Hah. Probably just attitude. Some people exude the desire to remain detached from work. At least in my experience :p

Thanks sponnapa90! I completely agree. It's so important to have a go-getter attitude when joining an organization as an individual contributor. That goes for CS grads, too!

Sweet!

This looks great! I love how I can see companies listed by multiple technologies! I can't wait to see where this goes