Build a production ready GraphQL API using Python

About This Tutorial

Agenda of the worshop

• Workshop introduction
  • The introduction will explain the goal of the workshop and make sure everyone is ready to start
• Intro to type hints
  • Before looking at what GraphQL is, we’ll do a short introduction on type hints in Python, since we’ll be using the a lot during the workshop.
• Introduction to GraphQL
  • Here we’ll be looking at what GraphQL is, how it works and why it has been created
• Our first GraphQL API
  • Here we’ll get our hands dirty by creating our first GraphQL API using Strawberry. We’ll also take time to see how to configure Strawberry with Django.
• Let’s test our API
  • I’m a big fan of TDD, so before continuing with our workshop we’ll quickly see how to test our GraphQL API using pytest.
• Schema design
  • In this section we’ll spend time taking a look at how to design a GraphQL schema. We’ll also understand the difference between queries and mutations.
• Authentication
  • In this section we’ll implement authentication to our GraphQL API. We’ll discuss session based auth vs JWT authentication.
• Bonus
  • Performance / Monitoring / Observability
  • In this section we’ll discuss how we can add observability/monitoring to our APIs and make sure we can keep our API performant over time.

  • We’ll also see how we can use dataloaders to make our queries efficient. We’ll also talk about other potential performance improvements (SQL optimisation, Static Queries and more)

  • Integration with React
    • In this section we’ll see how we can use GraphQL with a frontend framework like React.
  • Subscriptions
    • In this section we’ll see what subscriptions are in GraphQL and how you can leverage them to build realtime APIs.