Visual Design of GraphQL Data: A Practical Introduction with Legacy Data and Neo4j

✍ Scribed by Thomas Frisendal

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 120
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Get an introduction to the visual design of GraphQL data and concepts, including GraphQL structures, semantics, and schemas in this compact, pragmatic book. In it you will see simple guidelines based on lessons learned from real-life data discovery and unification, as well as useful visualization techniques. These in turn help you improve the quality of your API designs and give you the skills to produce convincing visual communications about the structure of your API designs.
Finally,Visual Design of GraphQL Datashows you how to handle GraphQL with legacy data as well as with Neo4j graph databases. Spending time on schema quality means that you will work from sharper definitions, which in turn leads to greater productivity and well-structured applications.

What You Will Learn
Create quality GraphQL data designs


Avoid structural mistakes


Draw highly communicative property graph diagrams of your APIs

Who This Book Is For
Web developers and data architects who work with GraphQL and other APIs to build modern applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi
Visual Design of GraphQL Data (Thomas Frisendal)....Pages 1-6
GraphQL Concepts (Thomas Frisendal)....Pages 7-11
Getting Started (Thomas Frisendal)....Pages 13-17
An Email Example (Thomas Frisendal)....Pages 19-26
Business Meaning (Thomas Frisendal)....Pages 27-34
Presenting the Business Flow (Thomas Frisendal)....Pages 35-38
Content Matters (Thomas Frisendal)....Pages 39-43
Getting the Structure Right (Thomas Frisendal)....Pages 45-60
From Graph to Trees (Thomas Frisendal)....Pages 61-68
Resolving Legacy SQL Data Issues (Thomas Frisendal)....Pages 69-80
Using GraphQL with an Existing Graph Database (Thomas Frisendal)....Pages 81-91
Using GraphQL with a New Graph Database (Thomas Frisendal)....Pages 93-105
Back Matter ....Pages 107-111

✦ Subjects

Databases; Graphs; SQL; Graph Data Model; Data Modeling; Queries; GraphQL; Neo4j