Getting started with GraphQL and HotChocolate

Hot Chocolate is a GraphQL platform for that can help you build a GraphQL layer over your existing and new infrastructure.
In this episode, we’re joined by the author of Hot Chocolate, Michael Staib, who shows us how we can start creating GraphQL based Web APIs with Hot Chocolate and some other delicious deserts.
[01:27] - What is GraphQL?
[04:50] - What’s the story behind Hot Chocolate?
[05:48] - How does GraphQL compare to RESTful APIs?
[06:48] - Setting up a HotChocolate in ASP.NET Core (Demo)
[09:43] - Querying with Banana Cake Pop (Demo)
[12:00] - Querying relationships (Demo)
[21:03] - Where to learn more?
Hot Chocolate on GitHub
github.com/Chi...
GraphQL Workshop
github.com/Chi...
What is up with 11 of Hot Chocolate?
chillicream.co...
Create web APIs with ASP.NET Core
docs.microsoft...
#GraphQL #AspNetCore #WebAPI

[@tanekim77]

We need more of this. I want to hear about Blazor + Hot chocolate

[@PeterKellner99]

The GraphQL Server, Hot Choclate is awesome! Let's you get to Entity Framework and other iQueriable Data Sources with practically no setup.

[@martinrj30]

Ef6. NET6 by Jeremy Likness kzbin.info/www/bejne/ap_Um3WVr5p2i5I

[@bujin1977]

Impressive. It's come on a long way since last time I looked at GraphQL.

[@fieryscorpion]

Man GraphQL with HotChocolate looks AMAZING!

[@acasualdatascientist54]

Cool new thing I want to learn!

[@collincashio]

This is the best thing since sliced bread

[@souravchanda4498]

Hi, I have one query. May I know the location where the documents gets saved in the Banana Cake Pop application.

[@PRAKASHCHANDRA0312]

Hi, How can we implement the radis cache with resolver in Hot chocolate ?

[@GiovanniQuarella]

I would like to see a c# client performing CRUD operations.

[@wasay456]

Is this still relevant?, Also what are the Nuget packages I need to add?

[@680ashraf]

How this..?. Usually I like cold chocolate..!!

[@BenHayat]

You should try a cup of Hot Chocolate in a cold winter night while programming GraphQL... :-)

[@danielvelkov116]

That's cool but redundant

[@danielvelkov116]

Also thats a lot of annotations. Getting close to annotation hell