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Congrats Ben (& Bruce) - I’m sure loads of people will find the book very helpful (I’ve split your post into a dedicated thread and added further info)
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Sigh, I needed this book end of last year when I did a POC of our config API. If you are taking suggestions, I wouldn’t mind more information on resolvers that don’t use Ecto. Especially about how to take the whole query into account so you can make a single query to a non-sql datastore. (Like datomic.)
Somehow I missed this when you originally published, so I’ll take the opportunity to congratulate you and Bruce and wish you best of luck with getting it done!
I am looking forward to reading this book! In particular, I am curious about use-cases and patterns for developing with Subscriptions in graphql (background https://github.com/absinthe-graphql/absinthe/issues/156). Thanks for all your work and contributions to the ecosystem.
We’re excited to say that it’s officially been sent to production! There will be one more beta that goes out that includes all the chapters, which also takes into account all the excellent final review feedback we received. It’s now gotta go through the copy editing process and some other stuff before printing, but we look forward to it being out in print!
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