December 2021 Summaries

This tutorial demonstrates how to build a robust and extensible GraphQL API using Hot Chocolate GraphQL server and integrating it with Hasura via Remote Schema. The steps include setting up prerequisites, creating a new .NET Core Web API project, installing Hot Chocolate GraphQL in the project, defining data models, creating dataset, defining data resolvers, configuring the GraphQL server, executing GraphQL query, creating a public endpoint for the GraphQL API using ngrok, and finally merging data with Hasura Remote Join. The resulting unified GraphQL API combines data from both local and remote sources.

The Hasura community has experienced significant growth and milestones in 2021. With over 10k users on Discord and 400 million downloads, the community's contributions have shaped the future of Hasura. Open source contributors reached over 100, and new stories were shared through Community Stories. The Tips & Tricks contest showcased creative ways to work with Hasura, while HasuraCon'21 featured product announcements and technical sessions from various speakers. Community calls turned two years old, and plans for 2022 include more physical interaction, events, transparency, and features.

Hasura has announced updates to its GraphQL engine, aiming to simplify data access for developers by eliminating data silos and easing the adoption of GraphQL across teams and organizations. The new features include REST Connectors, which allow connecting REST endpoints with low-code simplicity through request transforms; Data Hub, a new home for data connections with Hasura including Action Transforms and Event Transforms; identity-specific authorization for all GraphQL services; Google Cloud support in beta; and compatibility of official Hasura docker images with Arm architecture. These updates can be found in Hasura or Hasura Cloud running version 2.1.0, which is the default version for new projects.

This article presents a list of top open-source GraphQL projects and tools based on their stars on GitHub. The list includes three popular GraphQL IDEs (GraphiQL, GraphQL Playground, and GraphQL Editor), three widely used GraphQL clients (Apollo Client, Relay, and URQL), and three custom GraphQL servers (Apollo Server, Express GraphQL, and Hot Chocolate). Additionally, the article introduces Hasura GraphQL Engine, which provides real-time instant GraphQL APIs over your database. The author emphasizes that many of these projects have started as niche developments but are now being used by top companies like Optum, Shopify, and Netflix.

The text discusses how Hasura and Netlify can help front-end and full-stack developers manage microservices, APIs, and continuous deployment requirements. It provides a video introduction to Hasura and lists resources for getting started with both platforms. These include official documentation, a learn course on Hasura, guides on creating custom authentication flows, a demo featuring Tanmai Gopal from "Learn with Jason", rapid prototyping tutorials, boilerplate frameworks, and articles about the Jamstack.

The Jamstack is a modern web development architecture that leverages serverless computing and APIs to build fast, secure websites. It has gained popularity due to its ability to reduce costs, improve performance, and simplify the development process. Key components of the Jamstack include static site generators (SSG), server-side rendering (SSR), and hybrid approaches that combine both techniques. The choice of framework, FaaS provider, host, authentication service, CDN, and backend orchestration tool depends on the specific use case and requirements of the website being built.