Wrapping and Securing REST APIs with GraphQL

15:10/15:50

Your frontend developers are pushing to get started with GraphQL, but you don't have the backend capacity to migrate your existing REST APIs to GraphQL? Or you want to have a GraphQL API next to your existing endpoints that are based on REST? In this talk, I'll show how to create a Node.js/Express server that wraps existing REST APIs into one single GraphQL endpoint, while also keeping security in mind.

Language: English

Level: Intermediate

Roy Derks

CTO - SwitchBay

Roy Derks is a developer/founder from Amsterdam, who works mainly on React applications. Both at his own startup SwitchBay and the City of Amsterdam, where all projects are open-sourced. In his "free" time he likes to share his knowledge with the JavaScript community on Twitter and during meetups and conferences. #javascriptEverywhere!

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