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API Workshop

Building GraphQL APIs: Types, Linking, Directives & Other Best Practices

How GraphQL APIs simplify data access and speed app development

Register for June 16, 2021 - 10AM PT | 1PM ET | 6PM UTC

GraphQL is increasingly the technology of choice for developers who build APIs. It allows front-end developers to query multiple data sources with a single GraphQL endpoint. It helps the API developer avoid writing complex logic for every possible scenario the front-end teams might need, yet safely expose the data.

GraphQL is incredibly powerful, but it can take a lot of work and code to build an API. We’ll look at how StepZen makes it easy to build a GraphQL API that connects to various data sources without having to build and maintain a server or write complex resolver code. Join us to learn how to

  • create an API that connects to any backend - REST, GraphQL, or database - through configuration and a few lines of code
  • leverage GraphQL directives, including StepZen’s custom @rest, @dbquery, @materializer, and @sequence to power your GraphQL schemas
  • easily link types that pull data from entirely different data sources
  • execute multiple queries in sequence

Presented By

Join Brian and Lucia to explore how to leverage GraphQL to easily access the data you need and speed up app development. There’ll be plenty of time for Q&A as well.

Brian Rinaldi

Developer Advocate

Brian Rinaldi is a Developer Advocate at StepZen. Brian has worked for over 10 years focused on developer community and developer relations at companies like Progress Software and Adobe. Brian has been a developer for over 20 years, working with front-end and back-end technologies mostly focused on the web.

Brian Rinaldi

Lucia Cerchie

Developer

A software engineer from Phoenix, Arizona, Lucia enjoys knocking out solutions in JavaScript and Python. At StepZen, she’s loving helping developers simplify juggling data sources.

Lucia Cerchie