Is Apollo good? I feel like I’ve been aware of their existence for a long time — they have a large marketing presence but I don’t actually have any idea what it is ... there’s a server for making graphql servers and a client for doing ...??? I know they have tools for compiling graphql queries into various typed language interfaces which I have lusted for.
I feel like every blog post of theirs I’ve ever clicked is high percentage marketing and not a lot of focused explanation ...
They have a tough communication nut to crack — they have to sell to people who’ve never heard of graphql, to people who’ve lusted after the vision communicated very clearly by Facebook for graphql and relay, to people using redux and the disarray of different mechanisms for straddling the various in practice divides between local and server state.
Being able to map rest apis into graphql apis on the browser side seems like a nice migration strategy but there still seems like something missing to me to feel like I know what the value proposition of the Apollo Client is ...
Are there any good live demo style introductions to Apollo — something gripping like the original redux conference demo[1] ...?
I feel like every blog post of theirs I’ve ever clicked is high percentage marketing and not a lot of focused explanation ...
They have a tough communication nut to crack — they have to sell to people who’ve never heard of graphql, to people who’ve lusted after the vision communicated very clearly by Facebook for graphql and relay, to people using redux and the disarray of different mechanisms for straddling the various in practice divides between local and server state.
Being able to map rest apis into graphql apis on the browser side seems like a nice migration strategy but there still seems like something missing to me to feel like I know what the value proposition of the Apollo Client is ...
Are there any good live demo style introductions to Apollo — something gripping like the original redux conference demo[1] ...?
[1] https://youtu.be/xsSnOQynTHs