Rock-Solid React & GraphQL Apps for People in a Hurry
Ryan Chenkie
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Founder @ CourseLift
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2017: GraphQL in the Early Days
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Frustrations
Repetitive, manual work
No good front end/backend author-time integration
Bespoke, potentially brittle solutions
Unclear how to separate a project into modules
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Things Have Gotten Better
Nearly all technical points have been improved
- Better server libraries
- Project arrangement conventions
- Tooling is better
- Codegen
- Type safety
Adoption has grown and stabilized
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Still Room for Improvement
The learning loop can be challenging
- Where does GraphQL fit in the stack?
- How do I work with other APIs?
- What tools do I need?
New GraphQL developers might still be left confused
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Early Wins for the Win
If we want more developers to try and adopt GraphQL, we need a better way to get them started
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The Ideal GraphQL Experience
Have a way to handle everything that other conventions do without needing think about it
Automatically be informed about the GraphQL schema across the stack
Have the benefits of the client-server relationship that GraphQL gives without needing to think about the mechanics
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Highly Opinionated
Brings together existing tech
Clear and consistent patterns
Many time-saving features
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What does a RedwoodJS app look like?
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It comes with two "sides"
Web
API
So does Redwood just install dependencies for these individual technologies?
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- Generators
- Scaffolding
- Authentication
- Routing
- Layouts
- Codemods
- Monorepos
- Custom patterns (cells)
Generating a Component
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yarn redwood generate component my-componentGenerating a Page
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yarn redwood generate page my-pageGenerating a Layout
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yarn redwood generate layout my-layout@ryanchenkie
Generating an SDL
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yarn redwood generate sdl my-resource@ryanchenkie
RedwoodJS in action
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redwoodjs.com
Ryan Chenkie
@ryanchenkie
Founder @ CourseLift
Thank You ❤️
Rock-Solid React & GraphQL Apps for People in a Hurry
By Ryan Chenkie
Rock-Solid React & GraphQL Apps for People in a Hurry
In this talk, we'll look at some of the modern options for building a full stack React and GraphQL app with strong conventions and how this can be of enormous benefit to you and your team. We'll focus specifically on RedwoodJS, a full stack React framework that is often called 'Ruby on Rails for React'.
