WordPress has successfully transitioned from a Blog to a CMS and now is becoming a platform for which anything can be built. However, the evolution is still continuing, and GraphQL is part of the platform evolution.<\/p>\n
GraphQL is a query language spec that allows data from any system, including WordPress, to be queried as if it were a Graph of data.<\/p>\n
I will walk through what WordPress as an Application Data Graph looks like, and how GraphQL can make querying data from the WP Application Data Graph easy, declarative and highly performant.<\/p>\n
We will look briefly at how GraphQL compares to REST, some similarities and differences.<\/p>\n
We will look at some examples of WPGraphQL in production on large publishing sites, such as DenverPost.com and SiliconValley.com.<\/p>\n
We will dive into how to use GraphQL to query data from WordPress using the WPGraphQL plugin (https:\/\/github.com\/wp-graphql\/wp-graphql).<\/p>\n
In this portion of the talk, we will look at demos of querying and mutating (writing) data in WordPress using a GraphQL IDE tool called GraphiQL.<\/p>\n
Then we will discuss what benefits GraphQL provides for decoupled applications, the tooling around GraphQL that makes it a pleasant experience to work with.<\/p>\n
Some benefits I will highlight are: performance gains over REST, the ability to request multiple resources without round trips to a network, tooling around GraphQL (such as GraphiQL IDE and other IDE plugins).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WordPress has successfully transitioned from a Blog to a CMS and now is becoming a platform for which anything can be built. However, the evolution is still continuing, and GraphQL is part of the platform evolution. GraphQL is a query language spec that allows data from any system, including WordPress, to be queried as if … <\/p>\n