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A Practical Guide to GraphQL: From the Client Perspective

Name: A Practical Guide to GraphQL: From the Client Perspective
Price: 59 USD
Author: Robin Wieruch

Gain insights into GraphQL from a client perspective. Explore practical exercises, React integration, Apollo Client, and a live VM for real-time coding with GitHub’s GraphQL API.

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59 lessons

1 project

20h

Created by Robin Wieruch

A Practical Guide to GraphQL: From the Client Perspective

What's included

59 lessons across 7 modules
14 quizzes with instant feedback
1 project in preconfigured environments
AI Tutor on every lesson

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What You'll Learn

Identify GraphQL queries, mutations, and client-controlled data fetching compared to REST
Configure GitHub personal access tokens and authorization headers for GraphQL requests
Write GitHub GraphQL queries using arguments, aliases, fragments, variables, and directives
Implement cursor-based pagination with first/after and pageInfo in GitHub GraphQL queries
Build a React issue tracker that sends GraphQL queries/mutations with Axios and manages UI state
Configure Apollo Client in React with HttpLink and InMemoryCache to query and mutate GitHub data
Apply Apollo features in React: error handling, cache updates, optimistic UI, prefetching, and pagination

Learning Roadmap

59 Lessons14 Quizzes

An Introduction to GraphQL

Get familiar with GraphQL’s client-driven data fetching and server-client architecture.

What is GraphQL?

GraphQL Server and GraphQL Client

How to Get Started

Get started with generating tokens, configuring environment, and API interaction for GitHub.

Generating a Personalized Access Token

Using our Personalized Access Token

Interacting with GitHub's GraphQL API

Getting Started with GitHub's GraphQL API

Exploring GitHub's GraphQL API

6 Lessons

Work your way through executing queries, handling organizations, using variables, and mutations in GitHub's GraphQL API.

Combining React with GraphQL

7 Lessons

Enhance your skills in integrating React with GraphQL for efficient data handling.

Build a Digital Library Using Gatsby and GraphQL

Project

Premium

Introducing Apollo Client with GraphQL

10 Lessons

Dig deeper into utilizing Apollo Client with GraphQL for seamless API integration.

React with Apollo and GraphQL

27 Lessons

See how it works integrating React with Apollo for dynamic GraphQL applications.

Local Installation Guide

3 Lessons

Practice using React and Apollo Client to set up GraphQL applications locally.

Certificate of Completion

Showcase your accomplishment by sharing your certificate of completion.

About this course

WHY I WROTE THIS COURSE

This course was written to be as practical as possible. It offers an interactive learning experience, starting off with a general introduction to GraphQL and proceeding to allow you to play with GraphQL Queries and Mutations using GitHub’s GraphQL API. After getting you comfortable with the basics of GraphQL, the course moves on to how to use GraphQL with React and then on how to integrate it with Apollo Client. You'll implement an issue tracker application using GraphQL combined with both React and Apollo Client. Finally, with this course Educative introduces its newest feature: A live VM. You will now have access to a terminal with a native look and feel where you can modify code and see changes in real time - all inside your browser!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Robin Wieruch

Every Educative resource is designed by our team of ex-MAANG software engineers and PhD computer science educators — subject matter experts who've shipped production code at scale and taught the theory behind it. No videos, no fluff.

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