Rethinking REST a hands-on guide to GraphQL and Queryable APIs
The lessons start with a high-level introduction to the language, its features, and best practices for creating a production-ready API. In the latter part, the lessons provide guided tutorials for creating a GitHub dashboard using their existing API and building your own GraphQL API from scratch usi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Addison-Wesley Professional
2018
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| Edition: | 1st edition |
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | The lessons start with a high-level introduction to the language, its features, and best practices for creating a production-ready API. In the latter part, the lessons provide guided tutorials for creating a GitHub dashboard using their existing API and building your own GraphQL API from scratch using either the Node.js or Django frameworks. Download the related files from http://www.informit.com/store/rethinking-rest-a-hands-on-guide-to-graphql-and-queryable-9780135381441 . About the Instructor Arianne Dee is a software developer and educator from the University of British Columbia. She loves Python for its versatility and community, and GraphQL because it makes APIs fun and intuitive. She is an instructor for Canada Learning Code and a maker at MakerLabs in Vancouver, BC. While working as a back-end developer at 7Geese, she worked on creating their GraphQL API in Django. Since then, she has done training, spoken at conferences, and developed her own GraphQL server library for Django. Skill Level Beginning to Intermediate What You Will Learn Learn all about GraphQL and its core features Learn how to consume a GraphQL API by building a simple Github client Build a GraphQL API from scratch in your choice of Node.js or Django Learn how to use the GraphiQL app to improve your GraphQL workflows Explore working with GraphQL mutations and directives Learn best practices for production environments: pagination, security, and caching Who Should Take This Course Django or Node developers who want to learn how to get started building a GraphQL API Front-end developers who want to learn how to .. 4+ Hours of Video Instruction Since being released by Facebook, GraphQL has been adopted as the API standard of choice by companies such as GitHub, Yelp, Intuit, and the New York Times. GraphQL improves upon REST APIs by providing an explorable and self-documented way of getting exactly the data you need for your application. Whether you're working on a mobile app or a dashboard view, no matter how small or large the project, GraphQL is an important new tool for any application developer to know. Description This 4+ hour LiveLesson video course provides a thorough overview about the why's, what's, and how's of GraphQL, an API query language that has been making waves in the developer community. Given its potential to become the new standard for creating data APIs, this video series will give you the tools to discuss its pros and cons and implement it in a project. |
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| Item Description: | Mode of access: World Wide Web Made available through: Safari, an O'Reilly Media Company |
| Physical Description: | 1 video file, approximately 4 hr., 24 min. |
| ISBN: | 9780135381434 |