Name: Consuming GraphQL in Type-Safe Languages - Anthony Miller, Apollo GraphQL
Start: 2024-09-11T16:20:00-0700
End: 2024-09-11T16:50:00-0700

Tuesday, September 10 - Thursday, September 12, 2024
In-Person Only | San Francisco, CA

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Wednesday September 11, 2024 4:20pm - 4:50pm PDT

Skyline B-C

GraphQL itself is a type-safe language. A schema is composed of well-defined types, supports nullability, and allows for inheritance through interfaces. The flexibility and expressiveness provided by a GraphQL schema seems to be a perfect fit for use with type-safe coding languages. But there are many challenges to overcome when consuming a GraphQL schema in strictly type-safe languages. This talk will discuss why GraphQL seems to conflict with type safety; explore some of the notable challenges GraphQL client developers face when consuming a GraphQL API; and uncover how the Apollo team has approached solutions for many of these issues in Swift and the Apollo iOS client.

Speakers

Anthony Miller

Principal Engineer - iOS, Apollo GraphQL

Anthony Miller leads the development of Apollo GraphQL’s iOS client library. He has a passion for client-side infrastructure, quality API design, and writing far too many unit tests. Outside of Apollo, Anthony enjoys board gaming with friends, watching movies, and relaxing by the... Read More →

Wednesday September 11, 2024 4:20pm - 4:50pm PDT
Skyline B-C

GraphQL Clients

Audience Level Intermediate
Session Format Session Presentations

GraphQLConf 2024

Anthony Miller

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