Protim Bhaumik

Unsurprisingly, the Covid-19 pandemic revealed exactly how useful audio-video conferencing software could be. Having to shelter in place and work remotely, people worldwide had to manage everything from doctor’s appointments, fitness classes, dating…

So, you want to establish real-time audio and video in your Flutter app. This is a common requirement for app developers, especially post-pandemic, since everyone wants to interact online almost as easily as they do in real life. One of the most…

In this article, we’ll look at a few strategies to implement GraphQL with React Query. In a previous article, we talked about what React Query is, and how to get started with it. This is the follow-up to that post about how to work with GraphQL…

In this article, we’ll look at the React Query library, how it compares to its alternatives, what its unique product offering is, and how to get started, quickly. This post is meant for beginners or those brand-new to React Query. The documentation…

Functions as a service, FaaS, is most likely the most interacted with serverless product on the market. Function execution platforms really gained rise as more people got tired of setting up full containerized environments for simple code execution.…

Every few years or so it seems relevant to review the current state of GraphQL, see which trends have caught on with the industry, what the current best practices are, and make some speculation about what’s coming next. We recently reviewed the…

Introduction We recently launched BigQuery support for Hasura (to get a full list of supported databases, look here. In this guide, we’ll show how to connect BigQuery to Hasura Cloud, set default limits, and run a few queries. This guide will follow…

Type safety is an enormous benefit for developers when embracing the GraphQL ecosystem. This tutorial guides you through a practice known as generative type tooling which allows you to unlock the full potential of GraphQL types in the front-end. Why…

Recently, a user got in contact with us to ask about how to solve a particularly challenging issue they were facing: I have a requirement to disallow my users to create/update/delete a record in a table after a certain period of time. To be more…

When you're trying to diagnose why a particular operation is taking a long time to complete, or just want to better understand what's going on "behind-the-scenes" in your queries, the ability to debug and analyze metrics from your Hasura instance is…

I had posted this question on platforms like Twitter, HackerNews and Reddit and got some interesting responses. In this post, I'm collating a bunch of these discussions to help frontend or full stack developers work better with PostgreSQL for their…

The release of Hasura 2.0 included one of the most exciting features to date - multiple database backends, and in particular, support for our first new backend, Microsoft SQL Server. Our roadmap already includes support for several new backends --…

Dates and timezones are one of the most commonly used data types in building modern apps. GraphQL comes with default scalar types like Int, Float, String, Boolean and ID. But dates and times have to be defined as custom scalars like Date or timestamp…

In 2015, Facebook launched GraphQL—A query language for APIs, after internally developing it back in 2012. Ever since its inception, GraphQL has grown immensely with a buzzing community and vibrant ecosystem of tools, libraries, IDEs, & more around…

More and more developers are embracing JAMStack for building and shipping web apps that perform fast. The frontend tooling around building websites have become complex and powerful over the years. Static sites are not new. In fact the early web had…

Data model diagramming (or entity relationship diagramming – ERD) is the discipline of structuring the parts of your project in an easy to follow diagram that exposes the cardinality (one-to-many, many-to-one, etc), attributes, and functionality of…

The year 2021 completes the 6th anniversary of GraphQL ever since its inception in 2015 and as the spec grows, the community grows bigger. GraphQL is seeing greater adoption in the developer space because of features that make it suitable for…

GraphQL is stepping in to the 6th year in 2021 and is seeing great adoption in the developer community. We have compiled a short list of 5 best resources (in no particular order) specifically catering to Next.js developers, since it's one of the most…