Traditional API architectures like SOAP and REST have been powering the web for a long time. But over the past five years, a change towards a more flexible and frontend-driven approach to API protocols has started, using GraphQL. At StepZen, we believe this change is an important one that will…

This tutorial will show how to create a type-safe React application with TypeScript using the Saleor GraphQL API. Also, some basic styling will be added to this application using Bootstrap. Introduction This tutorial will show how to create a type-safe React application with TypeScript using the Saleor GraphQL API. …

There have been many discussions on Twitter around “GraphQL versus tRPC” for building a modern backend for your application. GraphQL has become popular in recent years as the defacto successor to REST, while tRPC solves the problem of end-to-end safety in fullstack applications. It’s like comparing apples to oranges. TLDR…

Are you looking to create your own React TypeScript project, but don’t know where to start? With this blog post, you’ll get a comprehensive guide to setting up a React TypeScript project from scratch. We’ll discuss the necessary components and considerations for environment setup, creating a basic project structure and…

You can find the complete code example for this blog on the StepZen GitHub page. Data composition is getting more and more important for modern APIs. Companies no longer store data in just one database; more often, data comes from multiple sources. For example, a database or third-party APIs with…

GraphQL is very good at helping you compose your data from different data sources, for example, by using federation. Type extensions can be very helpful when you’re using GraphQL as a data layer or gateway for all your data. GraphQL type extensions allow you to add or replace fields on…

GraphQL APIs are becoming the defacto API standard. But what if you want to use a GraphQL API in a legacy application that only supports REST? This blog post will show you how to use Kong to turn your StepZen GraphQL APIs into REST. Earlier, we published a blog post…

Backends often return a massive amount of data, and intaking all data simultaneously causes more overhead and increases the response time. Pagination preserves the application’s performance by receiving small pieces of data in subsequent requests until the entire dataset is received. When Facebook publicly released GraphQL as a client-driven API-based…

StepZen is a GraphQL-as-a-Service cloud infrastructure that helps you to build and deploy scalable, secured, and performant GraphQL APIs from different data sources. With StepZen, you can get your GraphQL API up and running from a database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL) or an existing REST or GraphQL API. In this post…