Nikolas Burk

GraphQL is riding the hype wave right now. Yet many developers don't understand how they could benefit from it or where it fits into their stack. I'll introduce core concepts and outline advantages of GraphQL so you can convince your manager and developer friends to use it in your next project.

2017

React Day Berlin

GraphQL: The What, How, and Why

GraphQL is getting increasingly popular and many big companies like GitHub, Twitter and Shopify are already using it in production. In this talk, I want to demonstrate one of the newer and less-known GraphQL features: Realtime Subscriptions. 

After a quick introduction to the basics of GraphQL, we'll build a realtime messenger app with React and Apollo Client. I'll highlight the requirements for building a subscription server that works with Apollo and introduce best practices for implementing subscriptions on the frontend.

Related repo: https://github.com/nikolasburk/graphql-chat