Panel:

• Erica Sadun
• Andrew Madsen

Special Guest: Derrick Hathaway

In today's episode, the iPheaks panel, Erica, and Andrew speak with Derrick Hathaway about GraphQL. Derick is a mobile app developer and works at LifeOMic. Derrick is on The Freelance Show to discuss exactly what GraphQL is about. This is a great episode to understand the structure of GraphQL on the client and server side, and many other facets and features.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• What is GraphQL, why are you using it.
• How does GraphQL differ from REST?
• Where does this live?
• The server component of GraphQL
• What do you use to use GraphQL?
• GraphQL requests under the hood
• Where is the state of the technology?
• Apogee
• Subscriptions
• Security
• How to get started?
• GraphiQL - https://developer.github.com/v4/explorer/
• https://github.com/skevy/graphiql-app
• Query validation at compile time
• And much, much more!

LINKS:

• https://lifeomic.com
• https://cloud.google.com/apigee-api-management/
• https://developer.github.com/v4/explorer/
• https://github.com/skevy/graphiql-app
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/derrickhathaway
• Twitter handle  - @derrh
• https://github.com/derrh

Picks:

Erica

• Salt Lake City

Andrew

• Nintendo Switch

Derrick

• Microbiology