GraphQL Training Course

Who should attend

Web designers and developers who want to rapidly design and deploy responsive websites and web apps that will look great and play nicely with a wide variety of browsers / devices.

Prerequisites

Delegates should have attended our React.js Training Course or have equivalent experience.

Live, instructor-led online and on-site training

We appreciate that you need flexibility to fit in with new working situations - whether you're an individual, part of a distributed team, or simply have projects and deadlines to meet.

Our remote training can take place online in a virtual classroom, with content split into modules to accommodate your scheduling challenges and meet your learning goals. Get in touch today to find out how we can help design a cost-effective, flexible training solution.

As soon as it's safe, we'll return to also offering the on-site custom training courses and programmes upon which we've built our reputation.

Introduction

• How did we get here? The limitations of RESTful APIs
• A query language for modern web apps
• What is a graph?
• How does the GraphQL stack fit together

What is GraphQL?

• A query language to get data precisely in one request
• Queries: reading data
• Mutatations: add, edit and change data
• Subscriptions: listen out for changing data

Designing a Schema

• Describe the shape of data
• Defining relationships within the data
• GraphQL Types
• Reusable Fragments
• Resolvers: connecting schema to database

A front-end GraphQL client

• A review of Javascript and React fundamentals
• Adding Apollo-client to a React app

A GraphQL server

• Node and Apollo-server
• Connecting to the database