React workshop - GraphQL

Are you familiar with React and JavaScript basics and would you like to get better? Join us in our MSD React Workshop Series. It is a set of independent workshops focused on advanced React and other topics related to web development. Every session consists of a mix of a talk and live coding. We encourage you to bring a laptop and code with our fellow developer-lecturer. Apart from the laptop you will need a basic understanding of React, JavaScript and web development as we will not cover fundamentals and jump right into more advanced topics.

This session will focus on GraphQL – open source query language originally developed by Facebook. We will see what it is, why is it useful and create application using it. We are going to discuss what traps are lurking along GraphQL journey and what are the options to avoid them. Depending on the time and audience, we might get to more advanced exercises, such as how to connect GraphQL to relational database.

Prerequisites
If you want to try the code on your own machine, please bring a laptop with Node.js 8.9+, npm and Git installed.

Logistics:
- Doors open for check-in at 17:45 - This time the other building across the street!
- Short networking
- The presentation starts at 18:15 - 20:00 within a short 10 mins break
- Networking happy hour to follow the talk, pub, etc...