Panel:

Nader Dabit
Sia Karamalegos

Special Guests: Tanmai Gopal

In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk to Tanmai Gopal. Tanmai is the founder at Hasura, where they have been building a GraphQL tooling that helps accelerate being able to use GraphQL for app developers. They talk about what Hasura is and what inspired him to build it, what Haskell does to Postgres, and query variables in GraphQL. They also touch on the importance of being aware of the database, how authorization works, and more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Tanmai intro
Founder of Hasura
Has been building applications for about a decade
Focus on functional programming
How did you get into React?
Using Redux and GaphQL
How long has Hasura been around?
What inspired you to build Hasura?
Eliminating the middle layer
The elevator pitch of Hasura
Do you offer a database as a service?
Slightly different than writing your own resolvers
What Haskell does to Postgres
Query variables in GraphQL
Prepared statements in Postgres
Making queries from aps
GraphQL ORM for apps
Being aware of the database
How does authorization work?
PostGraphile, Prisma, and Hasura
How do PostGraphile and Prisma compare to Hasura?
And much, much more!

Links:

Hasura
React
Redux
GaphQL
Haskell
Postgres
PostGraphile
Prisma
@tanmaigo
Tanmai’s Blog
Tanmai’s GitHub
@HasuraHQ

Sponsors

Kendo UI
Digital Ocean
FreshBooks

Picks:

Nader

React Native EU talk

Sia

Gatsby.js

Tanmai

Building a new tool