Building Better APIs with GraphQL (Udemy.com)

This course confused the heck out of me at first so I left it alone for about 6 months. I came back to it after I'd taken a few other courses on GraphQL and it made a lot more sense to me. I think overall it's a great course if you know how you'll be implementing GraphQL into your own projects. The instructor does a great job though.

There is a lot of stumbling through the videos (at least up until the 8th episode), it makes learning the fundamentals of GraphQL much harder as there's constant debugging/troubleshooting happening. Debugging/troubleshooting is definitely a vital part of programming, but I think the course should be re-recorded with less errors throughout so that people are walking away with feeling more confident that they absorbed the basics without it being diluted by the other stuff.

Sound quality and speaker's articulation aren't great. Lots of debugging going on on screen which, while sometimes it may be useful for the viewer to see, in this case mostly makes the videos longer and less easy to follow. It would be helpful to be able to download files as we go (only one file available so far, halfway in the section).

This was a relatively short course that adequately covered the basics of graphQL. I came in with very rusty knowledge of JavaScript and was still able to understand the code being written. It's a bit much to digest all at once but since I was writing the code as the lessons went along, I was able to look it over after the fact to really ingrain it into my head. My one complaint is that this lesson is missing the update videos that he seemed to suggest would be coming regarding subscriptions.

A good course. Covers what you need to grasp and get started with GraphQL. In the beginning videos, the author seems to be making things up as he goes along. A lot of "ums" and "uhs". Further into it though he seems to hit his stride and is much more fluid in his delivery. Although he might want to hit the "mute" button when he coughs or clears his throat. :) I also like that he makes mistakes while coding. It allows you to see and understand the errors as he makes and corrects them. Very helpful.

I understand the concepts due to having a programming background but think another course I have taken used analogies and simple icons to describe certain concepts a little bit clearer. Overall still a great course!

Topical, hard to find subject material. Clearly the author knows his subject very well. However, the course could stand to be better polished. The fonts are small and hard to read. While a few debugging sessions are instructive, some of the ones should have been edited out. The loud coughing sounds are ear-splitting to those who are straining to follow on headphones (author may not realize this). The examples should be introduced with simple architectural pictures or something (see Stephen Grider's work for excellent examples). Author: please spend an extra 20-40 hours to improve this course it will pay huge dividends for all your students!

This course would have been much better if the instructor had used bigger fonts for his console etc. It was very hard to follow along and write the code. Also he did not provide downloads of the code so that made it even worse. in addition, this course covered the instructors own library for graphQl (graph.ql) rather than the official library (graphQl) which made it difficult to find examples on the web. His library is very easy to use but may not supported by the graphQl community in the future.

This course was a very good introduction to GraphQL. It covers queries, mutations and the GraphiQL tool. It also touches on subscriptions. It does not cover react or relay. Node.js is used, but the theory can be applied to other languages and frameworks. All of the information in this course can probably be had for free if you want to dig through the documentation. I signed up for this course because I wanted a structured introduction to GraphQL and I could not find any books on the topic.

All great, but it is the first course of author. So I give 4 stars, cause video can be viewed only under 720p (mobile users can not watch normally this video). And author have a sore throat, so every several minutes he swallows loudly and that distracts. But author is great! Getting well and make new courses.