GraphQL Tutorial for Server-Side Swift with Vapor: Getting Started

For a long time, solving the problem of API integrations between frontend and server-side seemed trivial. You might have stumbled across some HTML form encoding or legacy APIs that relied on SOAP and XML, but most APIs used REST with JSON encoding. While REST looked like the de-facto standard, ironically, it didn’t have a defined […] By Max Desiatov.

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GraphQL Tutorial for Server-Side Swift with Vapor: Getting Started

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Great, you’ve finished this introduction to GraphQL using Server Side Swift. In this article you’ve learnt the following:

How GraphQL differs from other technologies such as pure REST implementations.
Define Fields, Queries and Mutations in GraphQL.
Learnt how to create, update and delete entities within your model.
Exploring the GraphQL API.
Use pagination to retrieve multiple pages of results

If you’d like to build an iOS app that uses this GraphQL API, check out the Apollo iOS library and GraphQL Using the Apollo Framework. If you’re working on a web frontend app, the Apollo Client library for JavaScript and TypeScript is a great option. For a deeper dive into the GraphQL ecosystem, I highly recommend the GraphQL Foundation website.

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GraphQL Tutorial for Server-Side Swift with Vapor: Getting Started

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