Rishichandra Wawhal

This talk is for React Native developers who have never used GraphQL. It is about how GraphQL improves DX and helps you escape tedious and repetitive tasks such as state management, data fetching etc.

2018

Byteconf React Native

Using GraphQL in React Native apps

If you are a React Native developer, you build native mobile applications using JavaScript and React. However, you are dependent on a backend which you will definitely need to handle tasks such as push-notifications, authentication, chats etc. Given that you know JavaScript, you can easily learn to write a backend server and achieve all the aforementioned tasks. Also, you can deploy them very easily using Docker and Kubernetes.

This talk is about setting up a custom API, deploying it and integrating it with a React Native application. We will go over writing a simple nodeJS server with functionalities like push notifications, web sockets etc and integrate it with a React Native Application. Finally, we will talk about an efficient way to deploy this server.