Summary

Eve Porcello and Alex Banks position GraphQL as a direct alternative to REST and ad hoc web service APIs, and build the book around a single running example, a photo-sharing application, rather than abstract syntax alone. It opens with graph theory and the query language itself, moves through schema design, then implements both a GraphQL server and an Apollo Client-based frontend against that schema, closing with what changes once the API goes to production. Because the client and server chapters share one example end to end, the book works as an introduction to writing GraphQL queries and to building the resolver layer that answers them.

Target Readers

• Frontend developers who have only consumed a GraphQL API and want to understand schema design and resolvers from the server side
• Backend engineers moving from REST controllers to GraphQL who need graph theory and query language fundamentals, not just syntax
• Teams building their first GraphQL service end to end, client and server together, rather than adopting it piecemeal

Colophon

Publisher

オライリー・ジャパン

ISBN

978-4873118932

Published

Nov 2019

List price

¥2,860incl. taxMay differ from the actual selling price on Amazon