Panel:

Charles Max Wood
Tara Manicsic
Kent C Dodds
Nader Dabit

Special Guests: Nikolas Burk

In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses Prisma and GraphCool with Nikolas Burk. Nikolas works as a developer at GraphCool, which is a small startup based in Berlin. Their latest product is Prisma, which is a GraphQL database proxy that turns your database into a GraphQL API. They talk about why you would want to use Prisma and the pros to utilizing GraphQL. They also touch on why they made GraphCool and Prisma open source so that more people could use it.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Nikolas introduction
What is GraphCool?
Prisma
Prisma is the core technology that is powering GraphCool
Sequel databases
How do you communicate differences to Prisma?
Using GraphQL as the interface to the database
GraphQL is much simpler
GraphQL Schema Definition Language
Why use Prisma?
Prisma as the database layer
Prisma is working on supporting more databases
What are the steps from database to messing with GraphCool and Prisma?
MongoDB
Schema driven or Schema first development
2 GraphQL APIs
Prisma services
3 types of clusters
Prisma Cloud
Boilerplate projects
Why open source?
And much, much more!

Links:

GraphCool
Prisma
GraphQL Schema Definition Language
GraphQL
MongoDB
Prisma Cloud
React
@NikolasBurk
NikolasBurk.com

Picks:

Charles

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Get a Coder Job Course
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@CMaxW
T-Shirts to come

Tara

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Kent

Polyfill.io
Workshop.me

Nader

Workshop.me
React Native Training
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Nikolas

GraphQL Europe
GraphQL Day
The Beginner's Guide to ReactJS by Kent C Dodds