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Rethinking GraphQL Frontends with Robert Balicki

Rethinking GraphQL Frontends with Robert Balicki

A challenge in modern frontend application design is efficiently fetching and managing GraphQL data while keeping UI components responsive and maintainable. Developers often face issues like over-fetching, under-fetching,

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September 23, 202535m 50s

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Show Notes

A challenge in modern frontend application design is efficiently fetching and managing GraphQL data while keeping UI components responsive and maintainable. Developers often face issues like over-fetching, under-fetching, and handling complex query dependencies, which can lead to performance bottlenecks and increased development effort.

Relay is a JavaScript framework developed by Meta for managing GraphQL data in React applications. It’s designed to optimize data fetching by colocating queries with components, ensuring that each part of the UI declares its own data dependencies.

Robert Balicki was on the Relay team at Meta and is now a Staff Software Engineer at Pinterest. He is currently developing Isograph, which provides a declarative and type-safe approach to data fetching.

Robert joins the show to talk about challenges and solutions for managing data in frontend applications.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, having previously been a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He is based in Singapore and can be found via his profile at vand.hk or on LinkedIn.

 

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