Sandip Devarkonda is a product manager, helping build cutting edge developer tools at Hasura. He dabbles in technology forecasts and predicts that GraphQL will soon become the de facto standard building APIs for the frontend!
Building real-time applications is hard. However, GraphQL is rapidly upending this status-quo. In three simple steps you can quickly wire-up a fully-functional real-time app, without getting mired in unnecessary details such as setting up a websocket connection. That right there is the power of community tooling backing an abstraction like GraphQL. In this article, Sandip Devarkonda will explore what GraphQL is, and then take it for a spin by building a poll app in which users can vote and on-screen aggregated results are updated in real time.
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