Going into 2019, I want to spend more time on people I care about, activities I enjoy, and personal growth and self-reflection. While I believe that the internet, smartphones, and social apps will have an overall positive effect on society, they’re also causing us suffering: Distractions, information overload, and isolation…
GraphQL’s main benefit for frontend developers has always been excellent tooling and developer experience. Chief among those is the ability to easily mock your data. API mocking is critical because it lets you write and test your components without having to run your whole app backend. …
Apollo makes it easier than ever for product developers to integrate data from any backend into a React app. With new releases like Apollo Server 2.0 that make it super simple to set up a production-ready GraphQL layer, only one question remains: Where do you host your code?
I’ve been working in the open source community for almost 5 years now, building and promoting developer tools including Meteor and Apollo. In that time, I’ve found that blogging is one of the most effective ways to spread ideas.
A blog post doesn’t take as long to prepare as a…
TL;DR: It’s been awesome and I couldn’t be more excited about the future of Apollo. I’m joining Stripe at the end of August. Read on for the story.
In 2013, I was entering my last year of college and wondering what I should do next. In a lot of my…
Over the last few weeks, you might have heard a lot about Apollo Server 2.0, which is currently in the RC stage with the final release coming soon. It’s the biggest open source release we’ve worked on since Apollo Client 2.0 last year. …
When you’re working with a REST API, you don’t always know exactly what fields you’re going to get back when you call an endpoint. GraphQL improves on that by having a complete schema of your available data, and giving you back exactly the fields you asked for. …
It’s been a minute, but Meteor Night is back! Huge thanks to Lucas Hansen and Qualia, who are going to start hosting the event regularly. …
One of the best parts of GraphQL is that it provides a clean definition of the data available in your API through a schema. The schema describes the types and fields you can query, and also includes any relationships between those types.
The schema is what enables GraphQL to have…
A few months ago, we launched the first version of a new concept called “schema stitching” in graphql-tools 2.0. Schema stitching is a way to combine multiple GraphQL APIs together, or use an existing API in the construction of a new one. …
engineer at @stripe. previously open source eng manager at @apollographql and @meteorjs, https://github.com/stubailo
