Extended topics

• Mocking
• Pagination
  • Offset-based
  • Cursors
    • after an ID
    • Relay cursor connections
• File uploads
  • Client-side
  • Server-side
• Schema validation
• Apollo federation
• Hasura
• Schema design
  • One schema
  • User-centric
  • Easy to understand
  • Easy to use
  • Mutations
    • Arguments
    • Payloads
  • Versioning
• Custom schema directives
  • @tshirt
  • @upper
  • @auth
• Subscriptions in depth
  • Server architecture
  • Subscription design
• Security
  • Auth options
    • Authentication
    • Authorization
  • Denial of service
• Performance
  • Data fetching
  • Caching

This section includes miscellaneous server topics that we didn’t get to in the main-line Building tutorial, the Testing sequence, the Production section, or the data sources section. Some topics are short, and some are long (yes, we know—the length of this chapter is ridiculous 😆). Most of the code will be branched off of 25, the end of the Building and Testing sequence.