GraphQL: Beyond the Basics

A custom session focused on Federation, scalability, schema design best practices, and other concepts.

Agenda

• Unions and Interfaces
• Maintaining a Schema as a Team
• Understanding Apollo Federation and Federated Architecture
• Error Handling Best Practices
• Authentication and Authorization
• GraphQL Performance Enhancements
• Graph Monitoring with Apollo Studio

Unions and Interfaces

• Slides
• Funded Pet Library
• First Schema Iteration
• Complete Schema

Apollo Federation

• Slides
• Federation Project

Authorization & Authentication

• Business Logic Layer
• Pet Library
• Third Party Auth
• Federated Graph Auth

Performance Enhancements

• Automatic Persisted Queries
• DataLoader
• REST Data Sources

Error Handling Best Practices

• Apollo Server Error Handling
• Handling Errors with Unions

Apollo Studio

• Apollo Studio
• Rover CLI