Going Full Stack with GraphQL

It has been a while, but the Rotterdam JUG is back.

This time we are hosting an event at the Port of Rotterdam HQ with a great speaker: Rachèl Heimbach

==== Schedule: ====

18:00 - 18:30 : Come in, enjoy the amazing view of Rotterdam
18:30 - 19:15 : Grab a slice of pizza and a drink
19:15 - 19:30: Race to get the best seat available, get comfy
19:30 - 21:00: Rachèl Heimbach: Going Full-Stack with GraphQL
21:00 - 22:00: Discussion/socializing!

==== Talk: ====

Title: Going Full-Stack with GraphQL

Description:

REST is a great convention on paper, but is it actually good enough for today's variety of clients like web, mobile, IoT etc? Is there a better alternative? GraphQL's query language can drastically change the way you think about data models and state-management. Besides solving REST's over-fetching and need for many HTTP calls, GraphQL can power your complete client/backend stack by introducing a single source of truth data model. This allows GraphQL based tooling like Apollo to take over your client's state-management and allows you to focus on what actually matters: building a great user experience. In this talk we'll learn how to put GraphQL (Java) in front of an existing Java REST backend and how to power a brand new microservice architecture with GraphQL (Node) + Apollo Federation. Both cases will be connected to clients built in React that rely fully on Apollo's magical GraphQL based state-management.

About Rachèl:

Software Engineer at OpenValue who loves to learn and share new things. Has a weak spot for Full Stack development. Currently works with Apollo and GraphQL in a microservice architecture.

==== Reservation ====

We have limited seats available and would appreciate subscribing only if you are really coming, otherwise we are forced to blacklist you for further events.

==== Final words ====

Rotterdam JUG wants to thank:

Port of Rotterdam for providing the location for this meetup.

OpenValue for not only providing the speaker, but also buying pizza and drinks!

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