Today we are joined by Eve Porcello, who teaches Javascript, React, and GraphQL with Moon Highway. She is also the author of the books Learning React and Learning GraphQL.

Eve explains her process in preparing her conference presentations and how she uses techniques she learned in her theatre and improv background to really bring something professional and engaging to the stage.

Why is GraphQL blowing up recently? Eve says she believes it's because people realize that are a lot of clients that need data and they only need to load the smallest amount of data that's necessary.

Everyone always says to have a project app to learn something new but what do you even build if you have "no good ideas"? Eve talks about what makes a good learning project. Keep the scope really small. Some variant of a to-do app is a great project.

Finally, Eve talks about her work with the High Fives Foundation. High Fives works with injured extreme sports athletes to help them pay for the high health care costs of an injury.

Transcript

"Eve Porcello on GraphQL" Transcript

Resources:

• Moon Highway
• Eve Porcello - Everything You Need to Know About GraphQL in 3 Components
• Learning GraphQL
• Gatsby
• High Fives Foundation

Eve Porcello:

• Github
• Twitter
• Medium
• O'Reilly

Joel Hooks:

• Twitter
• Website