Practical GraphQL – Become a GraphQL Ninja

Have you heard about GraphQL? Have you always wanted to understand the basics of GraphQL? This course is for developers wishing to learn about GraphQL in a practical, hands–on manner.

During the course students will be able to acquire the necessary skills to understand and work with GraphQL’s basic as well as advanced features, including but not limited to:

Have a basic understanding of basic scalar types

Create custom scalars

Be familiar with Resolvers, Type Definitions (Schemas)

Understand the importance of a data model in relation to GraphQL

Understand how GraphQL queries work – including parameterised queries

Get a working knowledge of GraphQL mutations

Understand how file uploads work using GraphQL

Learn how to serve images in a GraphQL context

Go hands–on and learn how authentication and authorisation works in GraphQL

Create 4 sample applications:

Implement a basic application to run GraphQL queries

Implement a more advanced application that uses React to work with GraphQL

Enhance the aforementioned application and extend it with authentication and authorisation

Create an application to understand how to serve/display images and upload files using purely GraphQL

This course mostly utilises the Apollo GraphQL services.

Please note that during the course several applications are created – mostly using React, however this course does not contain information on React. It does however discuss the React parts that are relevant to the context – therefore only students who are already somewhat familiar with React should purchase this course.