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GraphQL from Ground Up
Learn GraphQL by building a fully-featured API with Node.js.
Created byChimezie Enyinnaya
Last updated 9/2019
English
What you'll learn
- What's GraphQL and its improvements over REST
- Understand GraphQL schema and type system
- Understand GraphQL scalar types
- Create custom scalar types
- Understand resolvers
- Integrate database with GraphQL
- Understand how GraphQL operations such as query, mutation and subscription works
- Handle file uploads in GraphQL
- Authentication and authorization
- Understand GraphQL directives
- Create custom directives
- Pagination
- Query optimization with Dataloader
- ... and much more
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Course content
14 sections • 45 lectures • 3h 46m total length
Requirements
- Basic knowledge of JavaScript
- Basic knowledge of Nodejs
Description
GraphQL is indeed changing the way APIs are built and many companies and developers are already adopting it because of the great features it introduces over REST. This is a practical course where you’ll learn GraphQL by building a fully-featured API for a forum completely scratch. We’ll start with a gentle introduction to GraphQL and look at some of its improvements over REST, then we gradually move on to building a GraphQL API. This course does not only teach you how to build a real-world GraphQL API from scratch but also some of the best practices from the GraphQL community.
Who this course is for:
- Developers getting started with GraphQL
- Developers who want to build real API with GraphQL