Make A Spotify Playlist App With GraphQL & React Native

React Native is one of our favorite mobile development platforms and we’ve done quite a few workshops in the past on it, showing you how to leverage its powerful but simple cross-platform capabilities to develop myriad native applications. In this workshop, we’ll go a step further and demonstrate how you can combine React Native with GraphQL, the flexible REST-based open source data query and manipulation language for APIs.

The GraphQL project was originally developed by Facebook in 2015, and has since been adopted by some big names like Twitter, PayPal and the New York Times, with the State Of JavaScript 2018 report listing it as second only to Redux as the world’s favorite data layer
technology. Here, we’ll use GraphQL & React Native to build a mobile music playlist app that will use data from Spotify, taking you through the process step by step.

Prerequisites:

• Basic knowledge of programming, particularly Javascript
• Install Node.js (https://nodejs.org/en/)