
Lenny Burdette
Lenny is a Solutions Architect at Apollo Graph in San Francisco, CA. He was previously a software engineer and graph champion at Square. When he’s not thinking and talking endlessly about GraphQL and frontend, he’s probably trying to recreate some dish from a YouTube cooking video or hanging out with his wife and son.
Directive-driven GraphQL Development
GraphQL Galaxy 2021

21 min
Directive-driven GraphQL Development

You've heard of schema-first and code-first GraphQL development. You've seen tools that autogenerate GraphQL schemas from Swagger and SQL. But there's another way to build GraphQL APIs that's flexible, maintainable, and evolvable — just writing GraphQL SDL with directives!