#GraphQL is more than a query language—it's an ecosystem of tools and frameworks that streamline development and let you focus on business logic.
Learn why even small teams benefit from #GraphQL in my blog post: www.ravianand.me/blog/small-t...
5️⃣ Real-Time Subscriptions
Subscriptions provide an easy way to add real-time features like notifications or live updates directly into your app.
4️⃣ Powerful Clients
GraphQL clients like Apollo handle caching, pagination, and more, letting you focus on building reactive and feature-rich applications.
3️⃣ Performance
GraphQL encourages efficient patterns like cursor-based pagination (Relay-style Connections) and minimizes the N+1 problem with dataloaders and pre-joining data.
2️⃣ Code Generation
Backend: Use tools like GraphQL Codegen by The Guild to generate resolver types or even templates for resolver functions.
Frontend: Generate type-safe queries to ensure you're always accessing the right fields.
Why you should use GraphQL 🧵:
1️⃣ Type-Safety
With GraphQL, API documentation becomes part of your development process. No need for OpenAPI schemas or Swagger docs—everything is defined in the schema itself.
Thanks for sharing! To sum up the post: GraphQL brings type-safety and codegen and more that even small projects can leverage. Being able to generate types for my queries, not needing to plan ahead on what the backend needs to include saves time and effort when working in a dynamic environment.
Backend: #Golang #GQLGen
Frontend: #React / #NextJS
API: #GraphQL
Storage: #PostgreSQL, #S3
Why GraphQL? It's been my go-to for APIs for a while now because I get a fully typed API with documentation and a Playground, no need to fiddle with OpenAPI and the clients are much more powerful as well.
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#webdev #nextjs #opensource #buildinpublic
New blog post: Small Teams, Big Wins: Why GraphQL Isn’t Just for the Enterprise.
Learn how GraphQL empowers solo developers and small teams with a better dev workflow by providing caching, code generation & more.
Read more: www.ravianand.me/blog/small-t...
#graphql #go #startups #typescript
New blog post: Cursor-based Pagination with Multiple Column Ordering in Go.
Explore how we implemented backend support for infinite scrolling and multi-column sorting using cursor-based pagination.
Read more: www.ravianand.me/blog/cursor-...
#golang #backend #postgres #sql #graphql
