GraphQL for Users

The following resources are intended to help users and implementers. Find something useful? Please add it to the list!

Please note that the GraphQL Foundation does not provide support or services, and cannot recommend one vendor's product over another.

Training courses#

A number of GraphQL training courses are available.

Exploring GraphQL: A Query Language For APIs: A free 7 week edX course, developed by Linux Foundation Training
How to GraphQL: The Fullstack Tutorial for GraphQL
Apollo Odyssey: Interactive courses for building GraphQL applications with Apollo's toolset
Yoga GraphQL Server Tutorial: Open source tutorial for creating modern GraphQL Servers in Node, CF Workers, Deno and others
GraphQL Tutorials: Real World Fullstack GraphQL tutorials for developers by Hasura

Where to ask questions#

Stack Overflow#

Many members of the community use Stack Overflow to ask and answer questions. If you're running into an implementation issue or having trouble with a query, this is the best place to start.

Read through the existing questions tagged with graphql or ask your own!

Live discussion#

Many GraphQL developers idle in Discord, Slack, and IRC for live communication and can answer quick questions.

Please be patient and polite. These are not explicitly user support channels, although they're likely a good place to find someone who can answer your question if you ask nicely.

Vendor channels#

The following channels are maintained by vendors, and may be a good place to find help on their products.

Blogs and Newsletters#

Popular sources to learn and keep track of the GraphQL Ecosystem

Individual Posts#

Here are a list of notable blog posts to help you better understand GraphQL:

GraphQL: A data query language - Lee Byron
Subscriptions in GraphQL and Relay - Dan Schafer and Laney Kuenzel
Mocking your server is easy with GraphQL - Jonas Helfer
Wrapping a REST API in GraphQL - Steven Luscher
Leaving technical preview - Lee Byron
Relicensing the GraphQL specification - Lee Byron
GraphQL Introduction - Nick Schrock
From REST to GraphQL - Jacob Gillespie
GraphQL Explained - Jonas Helfer
GraphQL Concepts Visualized - Dhaivat Pandya
Building the f8 App: Using GraphQL & Relay
Your First GraphQL Server - Clay Allsopp
Tutorial: Kick start a JS API with Apollo-server, Dataloader and Knex - Thomas Pucci
Tutorial: How to Build a GraphQL Server - Jonas Helfer
Designing Powerful APIs with GraphQL Query Parameters - Johannes Schickling
GraphQL and the amazing Apollo Client - Gerard Sans
GraphQL Server Basics (Part I): The Schema - Nikolas Burk
GraphQL Server Basics (Part II): The Network Layer - Nikolas Burk
GraphQL Server Basics (Part III): Demystifying the info argument in GraphQL resolvers - Nikolas Burk
A Beginner’s Guide to GraphQL - Leonardo Maldonado
Architecture of a high performance GraphQL to SQL engine - Hasura

Videos#

Developers inside and outside of Facebook have given talks about GraphQL at conferences and meetups around the world. Here are some of our favorites:

Exploring GraphQL - Lee Byron, React Europe 2015
From Zero to GraphQL in 30 Minutes - Steve Luscher
Exploring GraphQL - Nick Schrock, @Scale 2015
GraphQL Servers - Nick Schrock, React Rally 2015
GraphQL at Facebook - Dan Schafer, React Europe 2016
GraphQL Source Code Overview - Lee Byron
GraphQL Future - Lee Byron & Laney Kuenzel
Apollo Client: Put GraphQL Data in Your UI - Sashko Stubailo
Relay 2 - simpler, faster, and more predictable - Greg Hurrell
Build a GraphQL server for Node.js, using PostgreSQL/MySQL - Lee Benson
A GraphQL Framework for Non-JS Servers - Syrus Akbary
Modernize Your Angular App with GraphQL - Uri Goldshtein, AngularCamp 2016
GraphQL server tutorial for Node.js with SQL, MongoDB and REST - Jonas Helfer
Building Native Mobile Apps with GraphQL - Martjin Walraven, React Europe 2016
GraphQL in native applications - Igor Canadi & Alex Langenfeld, @Scale 2016
Build a GraphQL Backend with the Serverless Framework - Ryan Brown
Build a Full GraphQL Backend in Under 5 Minutes - Michael Paris
GraphQL: From Zero to Scala - Jérémie Astori, Northeast Scala Symposium 2017
GraphQL in Production: Backend as a Service - Michael Paris & Vince Ning, GraphQL in Production Meetup SF August 2016
Development of real-time apps with GraphQL Node.js - Vince Ning & Michael Paris, SF Node Meetup February 2017
Unleashing the power of GraphQL using Angular 2 - Gerard Sans, NG-BE 2016
Webinar Series: GraphQL Around The World - Vince Ning & Michael Paris
All Talks from GraphQL Europe - Lee Byron, Sashko Stubailo, Dan Schafer, Johannes Schickling and many more
Learning GraphQL with React and Relay by Divyendu Singh
Hands-on GraphQL for Better RESTful Web Services (Video) by Ashwin Hegde
A PostgreSQL backed GraphQL BaaS by Tanmai Gopal

Books#

The GraphQL Guide by John Resig and Loren Sands-Ramshaw
Learning GraphQL by Eve Porcello and Alex Banks
Fullstack GraphQL by Julian Mayorga
Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe by Bruce Williams and Ben Wilson
Learning GraphQL and Relay by Samer Buna
Hands-on Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React by Sebastian Grebe
The Road to GraphQL by Robin Wieruch
Production Ready GraphQL by Marc-Andre Giroux

More Resources#

To explore other community-developed resources and content about GraphQL, take a look at these sites:

Building Apollo
awesome-graphql: A fantastic community maintained collection of libraries, resources, and more.
graphql-apis: A collective list of public GraphQL APIs.
GraphQL Screencasts: Learn something new with GraphQL, every week.

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