Show notes
REST Controllers vs GraphQL. You’ve probably heard of GraphQL but maybe you haven’t played with it yet. We talk with Ben Wilson, co-creator of Absinthe, a GraphQL library for Elixir and the book Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe to get a better idea of how REST and GraphQL compare.
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/2
Elixir Community News
- http://example.com/ – Example website
- https://www.pragprog.com/titles/lmelixir/ – New Book "Testing Elixir" by Andrea Leopardi and Jeffrey Matthias
- https://elixirsurvey.typeform.com/to/yYmJv1 – Elixir Ecosystem Survey 2020 - Write in the ThinkingElixir Podcast!
- https://elixirforum.com/t/we-ve-just-launched-devtalk-a-new-discussion-platform-for-developers/32268 – ElixirForum announced a new discussion platform for the Elixir/Erlang communities
- Apple WWDC, new processors moving to ARM. What does that mean for Elixir development?
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Discussion Resources
- https://hexdocs.pm/absinthe/overview.html
- https://player.fm/series/elixir-fountain/elixir-fountain-ben-wilson-2016-09-07 – Interview on Elixir Fountain
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRXNmAMPNW8 – ElixirConf 2015 - Streams, External Services, and OTP
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlxjhTc_u4o – ElixirConf 2016 - No REST for the Wicked. Building a GraphQL
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEckzwggd78 – ElixirConf 2017 - Live APIs with GraphQL Subscriptions
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4p4e9Uwn6I – The Big Elixir 2018 - Trapped By Our Tools
- https://thinkingelixir.com/rest-vs-graphql-for-an-api/ – Follow-up article
Guest Information
- https://twitter.com/benwilson512 – on Twitter
- https://github.com/benwilson512/ – on Github
- https://twitter.com/cargosense – CargoSense on Twitter
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