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Create a GraphQL API With Node, Mongoose, and Express

Everything is connected...


GraphQL is a technology that helps developers across the board to build more robust software more quickly. The ability to request all of the information you need in a single request is a game-changer. It has simplified my backend development of APIs for consumption by mobile and web applications that would normally rely on RESTful APIs. A normal RESTful API may have several endpoints for various entities (e.g. users, submissions, etc.); with GraphQL, you can get all of this information in a single go using GraphQL's query language, also known as GQL.

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Crafting a Command Line Experience that Developers Love

If you're setting out to build a highly-usable developer tool, it goes without saying that a proper CLI to interface with your API is paramount. As Zeit and Heroku have been setting the tone for these types of developer tools by doing extensive research into best practices when it comes to a command line "experience," we started our quest by digging into their findings.

Since the Stream CLI is currently in public beta, the methods and philosophies we found from our research, as well as those we unearthed ourselves, are fresh in our minds and we wanted to take a few minutes to outline what we found to be best practices among other CLI tools and developers' needs when it comes to building a proper CLI.