Frenchie at your service, Xavier runs GraphQL & React training at OK GROW! He`s a former mechanical engineer, who used to craft skateboards; and now, he crafts user interfaces and shares his love for web technologies.

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How to get started and build something with GraphQL

GraphQL provides a front-end-developer-centric data interface that can unify all of your data sources – including multiple databases and web APIs – in a single intuitive API. Using the Apollo framework, we also get in-memory client-side caching and a simple development environment.
 
 In this fundamental class, we'll cover:
 <ul>
 <li>GraphQL and front-end-centric data management</li>
 <li>An overview of popular GraphQL open source projects: Relay, Apollo, GraphiQL</li>
 <li>Queries, mutations, schemas, and resolvers</li>
 <li>Apollo server in a Node.js app</li>
 <li>Managing GraphQL queries on the client using higher-order React components and Apollo</li>
 <li>Merging a REST endpoint and database responses into a single GraphQL query</li>
 </ul>
 
 The course is totally hands-on; you’ll be coding right from the start. You’ll learn 10x more by doing than you would by watching slides. We’ll build an app designed to cover all of the essential areas for building real applications with GraphQL, dealing with real-world issues that we’ve encountered working with large and complex apps for OK GROW!’s clients. At each step you’ll be taught the concept, given the next goal and the basic outline of the solution, and you’ll work to build the next feature into your own version of the app with one-on-one guidance from the instructors.
 Then we’ll regroup and explore the instructors’ solution (which you have access to on GitHub). At the end you’ll have your own working version of the app plus the instructors’ version.

Xavier Cazalot

Xavier Cazalot

See Xavier at previous JSHeroes events