Day 2 of 100 Days of Code and Scrum: Launching the Apollo Client

Yesterday

I learned the basic structure of GraphQL types, fields, payload, and so on.

Today

Nothing too crazy because it is a break day. I studied a little bit and planned out what my goals are for this week.

Weekly Sprint Goals

• prepare for and go through 5 phone screening/interviews at different companies
• learn to use GraphQL and ApolloClient
  • would be happy if I learned how to query data to the client side
  • mutate data
  • learning more is always okay
• get through the howtographql tutorials
• study GraphQL documentation along the way

I mostly focused on learning about GraphQL and ApolloClient imports/initialization.

Here are some of the things I've learned:

GraphQL

• concept of a GraphQL client, which abstracts away the details of writing infrastructure code and caching from developers
• ApolloClient, Relay, and urql are GraphQL clients
• ApolloProvider, ApolloClient, createHttpLink, InMemoryCache typically are imported when using @apollo/client
• I am still not really sure what they do but I'm going to look them up tomorrow

Scrum

• Scrum Master role typically has no management power
• Scrum Masters facilitate the Scrum team so that they follow Scrum principles
• They have to do this without any authority
• I guess if I want to be Scrum Master, I'd have to learn how to influence others without using authority/power
• Daily Scrum lasts 15 minutes regardless of the team size

I'm still having a difficulty with getting used to working with the new syntax for GraphQL/ApolloClient.

How is everyone doing in their learning journey? Feel free to chat with me in the comments and/via DM!

DISCLAIMER

This post only expresses my thoughts and opinions (based on my limited knowledge) and is in no way a substitute for actual references. If I ever make a mistake or if you disagree, I would appreciate corrections in the comments!