Grafbase January 2023 Update

Hey Dev.to!

We are thrilled to share with you all of the latest product updates, resources, and a preview of what we’re working on next.

Let’s get right to it…

Product Updates

January has been an exciting month packed with lots of feature updates.

• Live Queries Grafbase becomes the first hosted GraphQL platform to provide Live Queries. GraphQL Live Queries enable developers to build and deploy realtime apps with ease.
• Product Roadmap Since launching the private beta last year, users have been asking about the future of Grafbase product roadmap. We’re super excited to share the public roadmap that you can follow, and even upvote features to be worked on first!
• Examples Directory With new examples being created every week we have made it even easier to find the example you’re looking for.
• Guides Directory Learn how to build the next generation of web and mobile apps with new guides added every week!

You can see what’s new even quicker by following us on Twitter, browsing the changelog, or joining our Discord server.

Resource Updates

Also in January, there were lots of new documentation, guides, videos, tutorials, and code examples.

• [VIDEO]: Serverless GraphQL API with Grafbase by Simon Grimm Learn how to build a mobile application from scratch using Ionic with popular YouTuber Simon Grimm.
• [PLUGIN]: URQL Exchange for Live Queries To celebrate the launch of Live Queries we made it even easier so developers don’t need to mess around configuring SSE. Install the custom URQL exchange and go!
• [PLUGIN]: Apollo Link for Live Queries We also made it easier for developers using Apollo Client to get going with Live Queries. Add the custom Apollo Link by Grafbase and go!
• [EXAMPLE]: Qwik + Qwik City Everyone is talking about how “Qwik” this new framework is so Heather created an example to show how you can fetch data with GraphQL with Qwik City.
• [GUIDE]: Build your own low-code GraphQL Admin UI with Retool In this guide, Jamie shows how you can build your own Admin UI to manage Grafbase content using Retool.
• [GUIDE]: Working with Eleventy and GraphQL In this guide, Jamie shows how you can use the popular Static Site Generator Eleventy with GraphQL to fetch data from Grafbase.
• [WORKSHOP]: Building GraphQL Backends with SDL In this weekly JS Drop by This Dot Labs, Jamie releases a video on you build a GraphQL backend with Grafbase using SDL.

What’s next?

We’re working on lots of new features, including a new directive that lets you write your own resolvers, as well as CLI deploys, data explorer, and much more.

That’s it for January!

PS. If you like what we’re building we’d love to hear more about what you think. Join us on Discord, Twitter, YouTube, and GitHub.