Graphql is a great alternative to REST and takes a lot of headache out of the Design of a good API. Created by Facebook and made Opensources a few years back, it has an increasing populairty. See how to use the Gecko GraphQL Whiteboard easiely expose your Services via GraphQL or write a specific custom API .
The aim of this talk is to answer the following questions:
Going from an introduction to GraphQL, a presentation of MicroProfile, a live demo, we want the audience to get a better graps of what MicroProfile GraphQL can provide to develop modern APIs.
While moving Eclipse Sirius to the web, we have created an HTTP API to interact with the Sirius server. In this talk, you will have a look at the GraphQL API for EMF that we have integrated in Eclipse Sirius. With this API, you will have the ability to easily manipulate your models over HTTP. This API can even be parameterized using any metamodel to let users have a GraphQL API with their own concepts and relationships.