The complete guide to GraphQL, from a beginner intro to advanced client and server topics. From @lorendsr and @jeresig, the creator of jQuery.

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Our book is the complete reference text for GraphQL. It’s got: - a beginner intro - the spec, simplified - advanced client and server coding - in-depth React and Node tutorials - RN, Vue, and Android From @lorendsr and @jeresig, the creator of jQuery. graphql.guide/
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Any sufficiently complicated RESTful API contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of GraphQL
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I'm observing more and more startups choose a 'TypeScript stack' for their tech: - Node.JS w TypeScript on the backend - React with TypeScript on the frontend - Some standard enough API approach (eg GraphQL) This is both easy to hire for easy to pick up for any developer.
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Do you have leftover budget for the year that you can expense for learning & development / professional development / training, as someone working in tech? Here are four recommendations to spend it in ways that can help your learning you the next year:
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12 Dec 2021
Another chronically underfunded OSS library in the news. It’s simple: - Using OSS to make money? Fund it! - Want to see an OSS project advance? Fund it! - Want to help your dependencies succeed so you can hire people experienced in them? Fund them! NORMALIZE FUNDING OSS.
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Why not take 5% of your engineering budget and invest it in the various open source projects you depend on? I'd hazard the returns you'd see over the coming years from this investment would be greater than having spent that same amount on payroll.
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I think the tech industry has a special responsibility to acknowledge that we have benefitted massively from open source and to start fixing these inequities.
No one is paying the log4j2 maintainers!? There is a whole page on the responsibilities of a @TheASF "Project Management Committee"... AND NO ONE IS PAYING THEM? apache.org/dev/pmc.html Open Source needs to grow the hell up. Yesterday. x.com/yazicivo/status/146934…
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30 Sep 2021
“Nothing comes from a tech book. Just the credibility.” —@randallkanna, speaking about traditional publishing revenue Learn more about writing tech books: css-tricks.com/so-you-want-t…

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29 Jul 2021
So you want to self-publish books and courses on programming? @lorendsr gets down to brass tacks on what it takes. css-tricks.com/so-you-want-t…

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7 Jul 2021
1/ Web dev podcasts, by the numbers. Here's a thread with some of my findings: blog.graphql.guide/web-dev-p…

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📉 Rate Limiting with GraphQL @shopify ⛳️ The GraphQL Spec Simplified @lorendsr 🕸️ URL-based GraphQL queries @losoviz 🦺 Type safety with GraphQL @elevate_ptrs 🚀 Apollo Federation at Expedia @shanemyrick and more in... graphqlweekly.com/issues/239 #GraphQL
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18 Jun 2021
Here's how GraphQL servers validate and execute requests, and how they format the response data and errors: blog.graphql.guide/the-spec-…

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11 Jun 2021
For many, the GraphQL spec seems long and complex. Here's part two of my blog series, simplifying the GraphQL type system: blog.graphql.guide/the-graph…

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3 Jun 2021
New post! The GraphQL Spec, Simplified blog.graphql.guide/the-graph…

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21 Apr 2021
Releasing The GraphQL Guide 🗣 by @lorendsr 🏷 tagged @graphql #learn changelog.com/news/zO9V

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We recommend checking out courses from @leveluptuts @wesbos @Codecademy and @khanacademy to learn JavaScript as background reading for our book: graphql.guide/background/jav…
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12 Apr 2021
Big thank you to @swyx and @stolinski for joining me for interviews on GraphQL and developer education—get access to them with the Full package!
12 Apr 2021
Today is launch day for the GraphQL book @lorendsr and I wrote! The GraphQL Guide is the most comprehensive resource out there for learning GraphQL. Get 20% off through 4/25 with code LAUNCH blog.graphql.guide/releasing…
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