GraphQL Hamburg Kickoff

Mark your calendars, we're doing a Kickoff Meetup at XING on the 18th of April! Doors open at 18:30, and there will be cold beverages.

Agenda:

19:00 Matthias Reis (@aithir) - GraphQL with Apollo Client

GraphQL is a new way of querying server data from the client efficiently.
Built by Facebook and adopted by almost all major players you know for
building modern dynamic applications (GitHub, Twitter, AirBnB, NewYorkTimes, Shopify,
XING), it has got massive traction at the moment. The talk shows you how fast you can start with the technology showing:

• the server side using node
• the client side using Apollo Client and React Apollo
• Advantages and Disadvantages

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Following this: Sebastian Korfmann (@skorfmann) - Schema Stitching (Lightning Talk)

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19:30 - Break & Drinks

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20:00 Sebastian Korfmann (@skorfmann) - Chromed GraphQL

Crawling websites and extracting its data can be tedious and time consuming task. Le's explore how we can leverage GraphQL and its type system to standardize our crawling efforts.

We'll build a full-blown crawler in a Node.js based GraphQL implementation. Along the way, we'll see various advanced concepts of the GraphQL specification in practice, such as custom directives & subscriptions.

But why all this? Our goal: Supercharging your next apartment hunt!

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20:30 - Drinks & Socialising

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We're looking for more GraphQL related talks for future meetups (from lightning format to full blown talks). If you're keen to talk, please get in touch! Also, if you're interested to host one of the next meetups, please let me know - sebastian@korfmann.net