This is the second & final part of the series written on building a serverless GraphQL API with Prisma, Apollo & Planetscale. If you missed the first part head over to the following article. Building a Serverless GraphQL API with Prisma, Apollo & PlanetScale - Part Ⅰ I’ll be explaining what are the pros of using PlanetScale, Apollo & Prisma to build a serverless GraphQL Lambda API.engineering.99x.io

In this two part series, I’ll be showing you step by step how to utilize Serverless Framework to build a simple GraphQL API. For data persistence we will be using PlanetScale which is a MySQL-compatible, serverless database platform powered by Vitess. We will be using Prisma which is a next…

How to Use Geo Coordinates in MySQL — Several months ago, I worked on a task that required finding certain entities around a small radius of an end user’s mobile device location. Latitude & Longitude location data relevant to these entities were stored in a SQL database. One of the choices to tackle this problem was to use…

This is the fourth part of an introductory series of articles on Prisma. If you haven’t checked out previous articles you can find them below. Simplify Backend Development with Prisma A Deep Dive into Prisma Schema Data Modeling with Prisma In the previous segments, although we created relationships between tables…

This is the third part of an introductory series of articles on Prisma. If you haven’t checked out previous articles you can find them below. Simplify backend development with Prisma A deep dive into Prisma Schema We’ve been considering the database logic of a simple blogging scenario where there are…

In a previous article I outlined the benefits on utilizing Prisma for backend development. If you haven’t checked it out yet, read it over here. Simplify Backend Development with Prisma A beginner walkthrough to Prisma to see how we can develop flexible & scalable backends.javascript.plainenglish.io Even though we straightforwardly jumped into writing a simple application logic with Prisma, we didn’t closely looked at most of the aspects involved with it.

Managing Configurable Versioning in a React Native App — Versioning is a critical component of your app upgrade & maintenance strategy. If you’re a developer with a certain level of experience you know that it’s not a good idea to keep constants like API endpoints, Secret keys hardcoded around the codebase. To address this what we normally do is…

In this article we’ll be discussing on building a robust stylesheet guideline for react native. This guideline is built with the aid of theming provided by react native elements along with Stylesheet API in react native. However at the end of this article you will see that its not just…