Modern frontend application design faces challenges in efficiently fetching and managing GraphQL data while ensuring UI components remain responsive and maintainable. Developers often encounter issues such as over-fetching, under-fetching, and managing complex query dependencies, which can lead to performance bottlenecks and increased development effort.
Relay, a JavaScript framework developed by Meta, is designed for managing GraphQL data in React applications. It optimizes data fetching by colocating queries with components, ensuring each UI part declares its data dependencies.
Robert Balicki, a former member of the Relay team at Meta and now a Staff Software Engineer at Pinterest, is developing Isograph, which takes a declarative and type-safe approach to data fetching.
Robert joins the show to discuss challenges and solutions in managing data for frontend applications.
Gregor Vand is a technologist focused on security, with experience as a CTO in cybersecurity, cyber insurance, and general software engineering companies. Based in Singapore, he can be reached via his profile at vand.hk or on LinkedIn.
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