A Practical Guide to GraphQL: From the Client Perspective

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.

Intermediate

59 Lessons

20h

Certificate of Completion

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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This course includes

34 Playgrounds

14 Quizzes

This course includes

34 Playgrounds

14 Quizzes

Course Overview

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...Show More

Course Content

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

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

My First Query Queries and Organizations

GraphQL Variables The Structure of a Query GraphQL Mutations GraphQL Pagination

Combining React with GraphQL

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

Introduction to Writing GraphQL App with React React GraphQL Query GraphQL Nested Objects in React GraphQL Variables and Arguments in React React GraphQL Pagination React GraphQL Mutation Shortcomings of GraphQL in React without a GraphQL Client library

Build a Digital Library Using Gatsby and GraphQL

Project

Introducing Apollo Client with GraphQL

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

Introduction to Apollo Client Starting with Apollo Boost Quiz on Apollo Boost Executing a GraphQL Query Using Apollo Client Quiz on Executing a GraphQL Query Apollo Client with GraphQL Variables, Nested Objects Challenge: Apollo Client and GraphQL Pagination Quiz on GraphQL Variables and Nested Objects Apollo Client and a GraphQL Mutation Challenge: Implement `removeStar` Mutation

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.

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