This is a living list of helpful GraphQL articles which I started to help my coworker get used to GraphQL. Hope some readers find it useful!

Principles

• Some thoughts on GraphQL vs. BFF: On the tradeoff between the speed of BFF and the scale of GraphQL
• Is GraphQL Still Relevant in an HTTP2 World?: How GraphQL pieces together different ideas to create a great developer experience

Tools

• What is GraphQL Code Generator?: A primer into a popular code generator that generates Typescript types from GraphQL documents
• Introduction to Apollo GraphOS: Intro to the core pieces in federated GraphQL
• GraphQL without a server: How one can use Apollo Client without a GraphQL backend
• TypeGraphQL and GraphQL Nexus — A Look at Code-First APIs: A comparison between Schema-First and Code-First approaches when writing a GraphQL service

Schema Design

• GraphQL Mutation Design: Anemic Mutations: Avoid anemic mutations and create mutations for specific, purposeful behaviors
• GraphQL Schema Design: Building Evolvable Schemas: A guideline to avoid shooting ourselves on our feet
• GraphQL Best Practices: An official best practice guide. See the Nullability and Pagination sections
• Understanding pagination: REST, GraphQL, and Relay: Learn about the pagination problems that the Relay cursors solve.
• Explaining GraphQL Connections: Learn about the Relay cursor connections in depth, the de facto standard way to paginate in GraphQL.
• Enhancing GraphQL Schemas with Interfaces: How to express polymorphic objects in GraphQL
• 200 OK! Error Handling in GraphQL: How to model errors into the schema
• True Nullability Schema: The significance of “null” in GraphQL and how it’s evolving

Real-world Challenges

• Why GraphQL Performance Monitoring is Hard 📈
• Why We Don’t See Many Public GraphQL APIs
• GraphQL Batching Attack
• GraphQL, Auto Persisted Queries, CDN Support and Getting it work on Native App.