API Strategy & Practice Conference 2018

GraphQL is a powerful new API technology which provides many benefits thanks to its typed schema. The schema itself will be the focus of this talk.

Scott Walkinshaw will share design guidelines and tips for GraphQL schemas which Shopify uses to onboard and educate its distributed teams building both internal and public GraphQL APIs.

You'll learn how to take advantage of GraphQL's type system and unique features while avoiding incompatible REST design principles.

This talk will cover building schemas that are flexible enough to evolve over time, provide useful and actionable errors to clients, and have a powerful set of mutations which can handle complicated write operations.

Throughout this talk, Scott will focus on making your schema represent your business domain and not your implementation making it more understandable for your API consumers.