Hello, I'm   Jason

Over the past two days, I have posted about building APIs using GraphQL and .NET Core using the Hot Chocolate NuGet package. In the first part of the tutorial, we covered how a GraphQL schema is constructed, getting started using .NET Core and Hot Chocolate, and building our first GraphQL query object using Banana Cake Pop. In the second part of the tutorial, we covered how to add data to our data source using GraphQL mutations and tested GraphQL end to end using Banana Cake Pop. However, Hot Chocolate is not the only way to interact with GraphQL in .NET.

In my previous post we covered how to get started with GraphQL by creating an empty ASP.NET application, installing SQLite, GraphQL, and Entity Framework Core, and testing our application using Banana Cake Pop. In this post, we’ll expand on our project from the previous example.

One of the recent projects I was involved in required our teams to build APIs that we’d consume in a customer facing web application. Those same APIs would also be exposed to third-party partners. However, both consumers of the APIs needed a slightly different approach. The internal team required APIs that were very granular so that they had complete control over the flow the customers would follow on the front end. This would also allow them to be quite nimble in changing direction without the need of an architecture redesign or heavy service lift. I like to call this level of APIs, micro-services. I view this as true micro-services as opposed to using that term as just another marketing buzz word. The external, third-party required “roll-up” services so that their application was not as chatty as ours.

Hostman is a cloud service that works with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Digital Ocean to balance and scale your application. They support static sites that use popular javascript frameworks such as React, Vue, Angular, Ember, Svelte, and others. They also support Python, Ruby, Node, PHP, Elixir, Go, and Docker containers. They boast that the deployment and hosting process is extremely easy. I was curious, so I decided to check it out.

This February, hear from the first Latina to ever go to space for NASA, Ellen Ochoa, and several others from GitHub, Slack, Gremlin, Cisco and more at Postman Galaxy. The event will include deep dives into Postman use cases and thought leadership in the areas of collaboration, API testing and automation, API design and architecture, developer experience, DevOps, and more! The event is free to attend and will be 100% virtual. The main event kicks off on Wednesday, February 3rd 2021 at 8am PST (11am EST). In addition, there are workshops on Tuesday, February 2nd.

GitHub posted 13 ghoulish games to play today and the rest of this weekend. All of these games are available on GitHub along with their full source code. Some of these games were built in less than 48 hours!

I have yet another opening on my team. This opening is for an Umbraco Developer. Here’s a quick look at the responsibilities and qualifications:

For years, Bootstrap was the most widely used CSS framework and is still the 7th highest starred open source project on GitHub. It originally started by a couple of developers at Twitter before being released as an open source project in 2011. However, many have started to slowly abandon Bootstrap. It has been 6 years since the last major release (officially today) and Bootstrap 5 is still in Alpha and includes many breaking changes including, but not limited to:

Last month, I shared how to create a Readme.md file for your GitHub profile. This little hack allows you to add more content to your GitHub profile. If you’re struggling to find additional content to place in your readme, consider adding additional GitHub statistics to your ReadMe. You can do that by using a pre-built statistic generator.

Postman Galaxy 2020 has been moved to 2021. For more details, visit jasong.us/2TB9iom.