Sanity,
GROQ &
GraphQL

GraphQL is not a general
query language

GROQ
is a general
query language


*[_type == "author"
  && name match "Edgar"
  && debutYear < 1900] {
  name,
  debutYear,
  "bookCount": count(books)
}

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*[_type == "movie"  &&
  genre == "action"
].director.name

“In a Sanity/GraphQL environment, you would carefully craft a specific GraphQL API powered by GROQ under the hood.”

“In the future we will provide this facility as a standard component in our stack.”

The future is...
soon?

insert demo here

Purpose-built API

Predefine and name queries
- Easier discoverability
- Expose only the queries you want
Visibility on a per-query basis

Utilize tooling

GraphiQL, GraphQL playground
Apollo, Relay, Vulcan etc
Graph visualizers
Clients and helpers for many environments

Mutations

By default; same mutations as in Sanity
If self hosted; build custom mutations based on Sanity mutation primitives

Subscriptions

To be decided. No "de-facto" transport/client implementations yet
Probably same listener format as in Sanity, but subscribe through GraphQL

Sanity, GROQ & GraphQL

By Espen Hovlandsdal

Sanity, GROQ & GraphQL

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