January 2022 Summaries

I've analyzed the text and here's a neutral and interesting summary: George Snowflack shares his experience of joining Apollo GraphQL six months ago, highlighting the key factors that led him to choose the company. He emphasizes the importance of understanding the next big thing in technology trends, durability, total addressable market, and backing from top investors. The first six months have been transformative, with new logos acquired, customer retention exceeding 190%, and significant growth opportunities emerging. George has also sold a lot of work to great companies like eBay, Hy-Vee, Mastery Logistics, and more, and has been promoted to lead Sales for the Central US Region, where he is hiring. The company's trajectory is extremely bright, with a clear path to further growth and success.

We recently introduced Preflight Scripts to Explorer! With preflight scripts you can automatically run any custom authentication before your GraphQL operation is executed. For a graph and variant, you can set up a script in the "Preflight script" section of Apollo Studio Explorer Settings, only available to users with Contributor or Admin roles. You can test and publish your script using the script editor panel, where you can write your preflight script and add environment variables. An example preflight script is provided that refreshes access tokens after a specific period of time. To use this feature effectively, you need to authenticate server outside of Apollo Studio to retrieve token, refresh_token and token_expires_at, add these values as environment variables in Explorer, and write your preflight script to make authentication easy for consumers.

The article provides a step-by-step guide to getting started with Vue Apollo, a combination of the Vue JavaScript framework and the Apollo Client GraphQL client. To begin, users need to install the Vue CLI, create a new project, and install the necessary dependencies, including Vue Apollo and Apollo Client. The tutorial then covers how to configure Vue Apollo for a new application using the Composition API, which provides better abstractions for code reuse and scalability. The article also explains how to query data from a GraphQL server, handle errors, and perform conditional rendering using the `v-if` directive. Finally, it recommends continuing with learning about mutations, subscriptions, pagination, and error-handling in Vue Apollo.