By Doc Jones in 05-22 Landscape — May 16, 2022

05-16-2022 GraphQL Landscape Weekly Report

This is a weekly report providing a snapshot of the GraphQL landscape that is of interest to the wider community. Items added to the report may not have occurred in a given week, but were found that week. Things here may change depending on your feedback or improvements in layout or format. Let the experiment begin!

People

Identify the people each week who are doing interesting things within any of the areas below.

Name: Mikhail Novikov
Description: Principal Engineer, Microsoft, "I'm the oldest non-fb name in the community."
Twitter: https://twitter.com/freiksenet
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/freiksenet/
Github: https://github.com/freiksenet

Name: Tim Suchanek
Description: Co-founder GraphQLCDN, Creator of GraphQL Playground
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TimSuchanek
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-suchanek-08219346/
Github: https://github.com/timsuchanek

The Beat

Interesting issues on Github

Title: Add support for Wildcards
Description: We need to sync our models from server to client. So also need to convert them from JSON exactly. With GraphQL this is becoming very painful.
URL: https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/issues/942

Interesting discussions on Github

Title: The Proposal Currently Known As Client Controlled Nullability: Discussing A Name Change
Description: At the last working group meeting, folks raised concerns that the current name of the proposal may no longer reflect its goal or content. If we're going to change the name, it's better to do it sooner rather than later before we get a bunch of release/blogposts/documentation that uses a name that will eventually be abandoned.
URL: https://github.com/graphql/graphql-wg/discussions/965

Title: GraphQL WG Notes - May 2022
Description: Discuss new intersection type proposal, CCN status update and rollout plans.
URL: https://github.com/graphql/graphql-wg/blob/main/notes/2022/2022-05-05.md

News

Title: The Heros of GraphQL
Description: TL;DR: GraphQL is a powerful technology that has transformed how data is accessed and used by apps. Its success is due in large part to the hard work and dedication of the people who have built it and continue to innovate within the ecosystem.
URL: https://graphcdn.io/blog/the-heroes-of-graphql

Title: Supabase raises $80M Series B for its open source Firebase alternative
Description: He, also noted, that it’s not just the database itself that users are interested in but also the company’s tooling around it, including autogenerated APIs and GraphQL extensions, as well as the ability to scale the database up as needed.
URL: https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/10/supabase-raises-80m-series-b-for-its-open-source-firebase-alternative/

Interesting Tweets

Title: What is GraphQL and how to build a GraphQL server?
Description: Twitter thread explainer.
URL: https://twitter.com/Rapid_API/status/1524788814283259904

Title: floodmagazine figures out caching for high traffic with GraphCDN
Description: ViewsonVue podcast
URL: https://twitter.com/GraphCDN/status/1525890308994572288

Title: Why does GraphQL always return http status 200?
Description:
URL: https://twitter.com/mojosd/status/1523812913865273344

Interesting Videos

Title: Typed Document Node with GraphQL Code Generator
Description: Generate a DocumentNode automatically for GraphQL operations, and the typescript signature it represents for better use with GraphQL clients.
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYIhx8dusa4

Title: Building a GraphQL API - Beyond the basics DrupalCon Portland 2022
Description: Creating a GraphQL API is about more than just exposing your data. To build an API that’s delightful to use for your API consumers you must consider the use cases. Version 4 of the GraphQL module enables you do to so, with the downside that you have to design your entire schema.
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBzvJ2Ctjm0

Tools

Title: hypothesis-graphql (python)
Description: hypothesis_graphql exposes the from_schema function, which takes a GraphQL schema and returns a Hypothesis strategy for defined queries and mutations.
URL: https://pypi.org/project/hypothesis-graphql/

Events

Title: The Hasura User Conference
Description: We are back for our 3rd annual user conference! Join us from June 28-30, 2022 as we bring GraphQL to the world. This is a free online conference bringing together developers and Hasura users from all over the world!
URL: https://hasura.io/events/hasura-con-2022/

Platform		Totals
Twitter Followers		76,624
Active on Discord		600-700
LinkedIn UG		2,631
Meetup groups	142 gropups	84,223
Github Metrics
	Watchers	547
	Forks	1,139
	Stars	13,749
Stack Overflow Questions		46,903