The Road to GraphQL

by Robin Wieruch

The Road to GraphQL is your personal journey to master pragmatic GraphQL in JavaScript. The book is full with applications you are going to build along the way with React.js and Node.js. Afterward, you will be able to implement full-stack JavaScript applications.

Genres: Programming, Technology, Computer Science

350 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 6, 2018

About the author

Robin Wieruch is a german software engineer and freelancer located in Berlin. In the recent years he has gained experiences in single page applications which use Ember, Angular and React. He is a full-time JavaScript developer, is doing his best to teach students on his blog and strives to learn something new every day himself.

Reviews

[Stefan Kanev · Rating 4 out of 5]

It’s a good book to learn GraphQL, especially in the context of React.

It doesn’t go very deep, but does few very important things:

1. It walks you through how you would implement the client (and its state management) without Apollo
2. It shows you how to use Apollo, making you appreciate the magic behind it
3. It shows you how to build a backend in node.js

The whole series “The Road to” is great and I highly recommend it if you want to learn React/GraphQL.

[Mohamed Badawi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very clear , specially the client part
I'd recommend it for every body who wants to know about graphql and the problems it solves

[Joao Antunes · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the second book I read from Robin.

Robin writes in a very clear way and use a lot of good examples to explain the topics he is talking about.

I have no experience with GraphQL and had not yet the opportunity to try it beyond this book, but I am sure I will return to this book when I use GraphQL in the future. I has a lot of good examples with different approaches for client and server side. The more exciting technology for me, explained by Robin, was Apollo.

I am an avid follower of Robin's blog and I highly recommend you to be as well.

Thanks Robin for helping the dev community.

[Jose Ramirez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Es un libro muy básico pero explica bien los conceptos principales de GraphQL.
Lo malo en mi caso que buscaba algo sobre Java (crear un servidor de GraphQL para ser precisos), y este libro esta enfocado en JavaScript e incluye instrucciones de cómo crear un servidor con Apollo.

[Rinalds Domanovs · Rating 5 out of 5]

Exceptional book, very well written and explained. Definitely recommending!

[Arun · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good introductory book to get up and running with GraphQL on both client and server side.