Working with GraphQL Services from F# Applications

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In this talk, we will talk about GraphQL, what it is and why it is a great alternative to the traditional REST approach. Then I will present a tool called Snowflaqe which allows F# applications to communicate with any GraphQL web service.

Snowflaqe implements a type-safe functional approach to data access with GraphQL. It does so by taking GraphQL queries, type checking them and generating idiomatic F# code which sends the queries and handles the data transport.

I will demonstrate multiple practical real-world applications starting with generating Excel reports from GraphQL data, to building our own Excel functions in F# which generate reactive Excel tables from the GraphQL data (featuring ExcelDNA)

The "Why" of this talk:

Having worked with GraphQL for the past couple of years, I believe GraphQL to be a very powerful technology. However, in the F# community it is rarely talked about and it is heavily underused. Many moderns platforms today expose their data using GraphQL and so I built Snowflaqe to make it easier for F# developers to consumer and integrate with these platforms.

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