#Intro to GraphQL for Ottawa JS Meetup This is a quick intro to GraphQL that I gave to the Ottawa Javascript Meetup user group on Feb 10, 2016.

###What's Here? The repo consists of a number of parts I used to demo GraphQL

• The reference implementation of GraphQL from Facebook in Javascript
• The GraphQL Express server with GraphiQL web playground, also from Facebook
• Slightly adapted (more to come) GitHub API from the GraphQLHub project
• A slide deck introducing GraphQL using the Shower presentation library
• A very simple HTML demo of using GraphQL to specify exactly what data you want for your view
• A cryptic outline of the live coding demo (mainly intended as a reminder for me but may be useful)
• The end of demo full query I was building in the demo. Can be pasted into GraphiQL to see end result

###Getting Started

1. Clone this repo
2. npm install
3. npm start to run the Express server
4. Go to http://localhost:3000 for GraphiQL and exploring the GitHub API schema
5. Go to http://localhost:3000/slides for the Slides (using Shower)
6. Go to http://localhost:3000/demo.html for the simple Repo browser demo app

###What is not here?

• I didn't include any code that showed Relay. I felt like grasping the concepts of GraphQL was enough to get started with. Perhaps I will do another session on Relay in the future.
• The GitHub API schema I used has no Mutations. I plan to flesh out the schema and add mutations in the future but for now, they are not part of the demo.