graphql

The GraphQL API isn’t very cool without actually seeing the data in action, so it’s time to implement the client. In the same spirit of my Part 5 post where I just overloaded my Java app to run both a REST and GraphQL api, I’m going to overload my client to support both. I have written a bunch of business logic around rendering this stuff, so I don’t want to have to rebuild all of that. [Read More]

Time to play around with the first bit of new tech: GraphQL. Since I have all of the character creator logic already written in my Spring Boot Java app, I figured I will just expand on that and see how hard it would be to migrate a REST API to a GraphQL one. The first step for all of my API work is the spec. GraphQL Spec We already made a swagger spec in Part 1, so most of the work is already done here. [Read More]