Virtual GraphQLPDX - GraphQL and the GRANDstack

Hey fellow GraphQLers. We will be meeting online this month. The gathering starts at 5:30 PM and we will have some time to connect at the start of the call. Around 6 PM we will shift to our talk for the month. More details on that below. Hope you all are safe and well. Hope to see you there.

Talk Details

The “graph” in GraphQL represents a slice of the application being queried. The “graph” in graph databases represents the relationship between nodes (data). It turns out you can use one to talk to the other. In this talk, I’m going to provide a demo of an app built with the GRANDstack:

• GraphQL – a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data
• React – a JavaScript library for building user interfaces
• Apollo Client – a fully-featured, production-ready caching GraphQL client for every server or UI framework
• Neo4j Database – a graph database that is ACID-compliant and built to store and retrieve connected data

Speaker Details

Mike Rourke is a full-stack developer that moved from Chicago to Portland last year. He works professionally with React and Node.js, but also enjoys messing around with Go and Rails. If you’re interested in learning about WebAssembly, you should check out his book: Learn WebAssembly at https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/learn-webassembly.