"GQLGen Essentials for Go Developers"
"GQLGen Essentials for Go Developers" is a comprehensive guide for Go engineers seeking to master GraphQL API development with GQLGen, the industry-leading code-first library. This book unpacks GraphQL's core principles, illustrating the distinctive benefits of its strongly-typed approach over REST, and situates GQLGen within the broader Go ecosystem. Through a practical, project-oriented lens, readers are guided from architectural fundamentals—like schema evolution, modular project scaffolding, and code generation—into advanced concepts that shape maintainable and robust APIs.
Covering every stage of the development lifecycle, the book delves into advanced schema design, custom scalars, directive usage, and performance-driven resolver architecture. It addresses the pivotal challenges of efficient data loading, caching, and N+1 query mitigation, while offering hands-on solutions for integrating with SQL, NoSQL, REST, and gRPC services. Real-time API patterns using subscriptions and WebSocket Pub/Sub models are thoroughly explored, along with techniques for robust security, authentication, role-based access control, and safeguarding against GraphQL-specific vulnerabilities.
This guide is rounded out with practical advice on testing, continuous integration, observability, and operational excellence for production systems. It delivers proven strategies for zero-downtime deployments, scalability, and high-availability operations, all while empowering the reader to extend GQLGen through custom plugins and community contributions. Whether you are architecting new services or optimizing existing deployments, "GQLGen Essentials for Go Developers" equips you with the knowledge and patterns needed to build performant, secure, and highly maintainable GraphQL APIs at scale.
