GraphQL + Angular Components with Uri Goldshtein

Why You Should Be Using GraphQL - An Interview With Uri Goldshtein

Uri Goldshtein, an expert at Apollo & GraphQL team at angular-meteor.com, explains why big enterprises like banks i.e. Capital One, or consumer facing company like Facebook and AirBnb adopted GraphQL to help with their data management and why it gives lots of benefits to both end of enterprises and their clients.

GraphQL is a powerful application layer query language that creates a data contract between the client and server. The client developer can create a GraphQL query on the data within the data rule constraints, set by the server-side developers. There are efficiencies for the client developers to query the data they need and for the server-side developers describing the data for their clients to consume.

Setting up GraphQL server is easy and with the language of your choice; like PHP or NodeJS. As it works independently from client-side and server-side developers it can be adopted by backend developers, product managers or client developers and everyone can enjoy performance benefits from using it.

There are web apps, mobile apps or other apps that can benefit from GraphQL query language. When using GraphQL with Angular components, it is the layer that all components share centrally without having to worry about the structure of the data on ther server. More efficiency is gained by this framework since there are less server requests by the client which reduces network latency and a more robust user experience.

You can find Uri on twitter at @UriGoldshtein or check out his GitHub https://github.com/Urigo.

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