Martijn Walraven

If you’ve used the Facebook iOS or Android app in the last four years, you’ve used a mobile app powered by GraphQL. In fact, development of GraphQL started in 2012 as part of Facebook’s effort to move from web-based to truly native mobile apps, and it is now a core part of the Facebook infrastructure. It is no surprise GraphQL was first conceived to serve the needs of mobile developers, and so comes with many benefits. We'll talk about all of them, and also why you should get a grasp of GraphQL in the near future if you haven't done so, whether you develop mobile apps using web technologies, React Native, native iOS or Android.

2016

ReactiveConf

Building better mobile apps with GraphQL

GraphQL was conceived almost four years ago to serve the needs of Facebook's iOS developers. Outside of Facebook however, non-JavaScript GraphQL clients haven't received as much attention. In this talk, I will explore the use of GraphQL to build native mobile apps. I will discuss some of the design decisions faced when developing a native GraphQL client, and illustrate these with examples from a Swift client. Among other things, I will show how to exploit code generation and the strongly typed nature of GraphQL to present a typed interface to query results.

ReactEurope

Building native mobile apps with GraphQL

In this talk, I’ll introduce our efforts to design a reactive system to automatically re-run GraphQL queries when the underlying data changes. You will see how to make the collaborative parts of your app update in real time with little extra code, how to integrate with a SQL database or REST API, and how this works in concert with GraphQL’s best features to simplify your app’s data management while being predictable and maintainable.

Slides are here https://speakerdeck.com/reactamsterdam/martijn-walraven-meteor-amsterdam-building-reactive-graphql-apps-with-apollo