Week of May 16: GraphQL Landscape Weekly Report

Jan Schenk - May 19 '22 - - Dev Community

This is a weekly report providing a snapshot of the GraphQL landscape that is of interest to the wider community. Items added to the report may not have occurred in a given week, but were found that week. Things here may change depending on your feedback or improvements in layout or format. Let the experiment begin!

People

Identify the people each week who are doing interesting things within any of the areas below.


The Beat

Interesting issues on Github

Interesting discussions on Github

  • Title : The Proposal Currently Known As Client Controlled Nullability: Discussing A Name Change
  • Description : At the last working group meeting, folks raised concerns that the current name of the proposal may no longer reflect its goal or content. If we're going to change the name, it's better to do it sooner rather than later before we get a bunch of release/blogposts/documentation that uses a name that will eventually be abandoned.
  • URL : https://github.com/graphql/graphql-wg/discussions/965

News

  • Title : The Heros of GraphQL
  • Description : TL;DR: GraphQL is a powerful technology that has transformed how data is accessed and used by apps. Its success is due in large part to the hard work and dedication of the people who have built it and continue to innovate within the ecosystem.
  • URL : https://graphcdn.io/blog/the-heroes-of-graphql

Interesting Tweets



Interesting Videos

  • Title : Typed Document Node with GraphQL Code Generator
  • Description : Generate a DocumentNode automatically for GraphQL operations, and the typescript signature it represents for better use with GraphQL clients.
  • URL : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYIhx8dusa4

  • Title : Building a GraphQL API - Beyond the basics DrupalCon Portland 2022
  • Description : Creating a GraphQL API is about more than just exposing your data. To build an API that’s delightful to use for your API consumers you must consider the use cases. Version 4 of the GraphQL module enables you do to so, with the downside that you have to design your entire schema.
  • URL : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBzvJ2Ctjm0

Tools

  • Title : hypothesis-graphql (python)
  • Description : hypothesis_graphql exposes the from_schema function, which takes a GraphQL schema and returns a Hypothesis strategy for defined queries and mutations.
  • URL : https://pypi.org/project/hypothesis-graphql/

Events

  • Title : The Hasura User Conference
  • Description : We are back for our 3rd annual user conference! Join us from June 28-30, 2022 as we bring GraphQL to the world. This is a free online conference bringing together developers and Hasura users from all over the world!
  • URL : https://hasura.io/events/hasura-con-2022/

Social

Platform Totals
Twitter Followers 76,624
Active on Discord 600-700
LinkedIn UG 2,631
Meetup groups 142 gropups 84,223
Github Metrics
Watchers 547
Forks 1,139
Stars 13,749
Stack Overflow Questions 46,903
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