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Amsterdam, NetherlandsSoftware Engineer, fulfillmenttools
Erik is a Software Engineer and GraphQL enthusiast that enjoys building full-stack GraphQL solutions. As a member of the GraphQL-Python Maintainer Team and Core Dev at Strawberry-GraphQL, he’s passionate about improving the developer experience and creating exciting new GraphQL tooling. Erik is excited about building performant and scalable solutions and is always eager to chat about new features, developments and the latest advancements in tech.
When we look at GraphQL server implementation approaches, you often see the discussion between code-first and schema-first as a schema building approach. What is overlooked is that Facebook actually built their Hack-based GraphQL server with implementation-first. This approach will infer the GraphQL schema from your code, and by extension from your business layer. In this talk, I will look at various implementations of implementation-first and explain why Facebook chose this approach to build their own GraphQL server and why it is actually the better approach in most projects.