Initial reaction to new tech. 

How GraphQL Boosts performance with Gatsby. 

Obinna Ekwuno

SPEAKER BIO.

Obinnaspeaks

Software Engineer @GatsbyJs


Media Developer Expert for Cloudinary


Technical Writer with Scotch.io, LogRocket, Telerik 


Accessibility Nuisance /  JAMstack Preacher.

Let's think about  Data fetching . 

Using Fetch API 

Using Axios 

Using GraphQL 

 Build Time.

VS

Run Time

 

 Fetching data at runtime can have performance disadvantages 

Gatsby and GraphQL : A tale of two cities. 

WHY? 

Gatsby Provides GraphQL abstractions 

Do I need to learn GraphQL ?? 

What are the Performance Implications ?

Querying for all fields in gatsby-node.js

Querying for all fields in gatsby-node.js

Page query results are not stored in memory permanently and are being saved to disk immediately after running the query.

Please use ID and Slugs 

How GraphQL boosts performance with Gatsby

By Obinna Ekwuno

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How GraphQL boosts performance with Gatsby

This talk focuses on explaining the power of using GraphQL in Gatsby and explains the pros and cons this might present when building a high-performance Gatsby site and when taking advantage of other Gatsby features like incremental builds. We will also be looking at how the GraphiQL interface aids in creating structural layers with ease.

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