Apollo + GraphQL: A step toward more declarative UIs

Sun Oct 22, 2017

Today I gave my first talk at BerlinJS! I started with some gripes that I have with building imperative-style user interfaces, and gave some examples of how declarative UIs are simpler to maintain. I wrapped-up with an example React app that I built with Apollo and GraphQL, and demonstrated how we can get selective server-side rendering and all kinds of smart performance improvements with this toolset.

I also open-sourced the boilerplate that I built for this talk, so check it out if you want a starting-point for your next app that needs a more declarative approach to fetching data:

https://github.com/eschaefer/react-apollo-ssr-boilerplate