API Connect: GraphQL Lab

This IBM Learning Labs course provides 90 days of access to the course material and uses a free trial for the lab environment. Access to the lab environment is governed by the terms and conditions of the free trial. 

Course requirement:

• You must sign up for an IBM free trial environment to complete the lab exercises. 

GraphQL has rapidly become a go-to query language for companies to interact with their data and is emerging as a new standard for APIs, layering upon the investments in REST APIs and data systems. While GraphQL APIs are significantly easier for the application teams to consume, they can represent a challenge to the API Provider teams tasked with building them. API Connect for GraphQL enables developers to easily build and deploy a single GraphQL API that gets the data they need from multiple backends. Using API Connect together with API Connect for GraphQL, developers can easily create, manage, secure, socialize, and monitor their GraphQL APIs. In this self-paced learning course, you get hands-on with API Connect for GraphQL and API Connect to learn skills how to manage the full lifecycle of a GraphQL API. 

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Create a GraphQL API using declarative approach.
• Build a GraphQL API from a REST API
• Autogenerate GraphQL schemas from PostgreSQL database.
• Create a GraphQL composition.
• Build a GraphQL Proxy API in API Connect.
• Secure a GraphQL API using API Gateway.
• Define products and plans in API Manager.
• Socialize and monitor the GraphQL API using Developer Portal.

Consultants, application developers, and anyone who wants to explore using API Connect.