Blogs from the StepZen team. With StepZen you can create a Serverless GraphQL API from any datasource within minutes. Try it out: https://stepzen.com
In this tutorial, you will learn how to build a fullstack Angular application that uses GraphQL to fetch data from a server. The application we'll build together will display a list of blog posts fetched from a GraphQL API using Apollo Client, includ...
Almost every frontend application needs some form of authentication. This post will build a JWT login flow with Auth0, Next.js, and StepZen. Auth0 Next.js authentication library nextjs-auth0, a library maintained by Auth0 to make integrating with Nex...
Have you ever wondered why some directives have to be added to your GraphQL schemas while others you can only use in runtime? That's because there are two types of directive locations: type system directive locations and executable directive location...
There are many different ways to handle authentication in GraphQL, but one of the most common is to use OAuth 2.0 - and, more specifically, JSON Web Tokens (JWT) or Client Credentials. In this blog post, we'll look at how to use OAuth 2.0 to authenti...
JSON Web Token (JWT) is a signed, URL-safe token that stores and encrypts information about a user in a JSON object. This form of authentication is growing in popularity and is widely used for handling a user's session in an application. What makes a...
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. ...
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 a...
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 publi...
Typically I advise people to use a server-side request to query a GraphQL API. This is because you can hide your API key in the server-side code. However, most Jamstack applications require you to write client-side code, so you can't use a server-sid...
