1. React
  2. ReactEurope
  3. 2016
  4. Building native mobile apps with GraphQL

Building native mobile apps with GraphQL

Martijn Walraven at ReactEurope 2016

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.