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The awesome folks over at Snipcart just released a great blog post on how to integrate their powerful shopping cart with a Hygraph powered website.

This tale tells of a time before now, when Gatsby.js (a static site generator that combines React and GraphQL) was only using GraphQL internally. Gatsby could fetch data from static files, contentful APIs, Wordpress databases, and mongoDB, but it never fetched the seed data with GraphQL. Angel, the original plugin author and project leader, looked into static site generators for his personal website remake. He thought to himself, “Well, that doesn’t make much sense, does it?” And the idea was born.

It’s been a wild year for the growing technology. Enterprise adoption continued to grow at a remarkable pace, the legal details which are oh-so-important to those SLAs and RFPs started to solidify and the stack of service providers became ever more robust. Whether you want to roll-your-own or you just want to roll-out in the next 5 minutes - there’s something for everyone.

Guest Post by our fellow community member Meinolf Droste! Framework7 is a HTML5, CSS and Javascript framework that allows creating mobile user interfaces with native-like look & feel.

I think like most front-end developers I got into it out of a real need for something better for data. I remember the first time I used and learned my way around apollo I knew I was never going back

I was working at IBM on a product powered by a µ-services architecture. We were seeing _tons_ of duplicated code between µ-services, with a lot of it being confusing proxy wrappers around other APIs to guard against unexpected breaking changes in the upstream API. It was... gnarly.

Have you heard about schema stitching yet? Wonder what it is, when to use it or why? This is the post to get you started.

You want the customizability of an in-house CMS without the associated costs and risks? Headless content management can bring you close to this dream. Building your own CMS is a dangerous journey you do not need to make anymore. Your developer resources are freed up and can now be fully invested in features that are directly related to your core business.

A list of the benefits of software-as-a-service (SaaS) products and recommendations of how to mitigate any risk related to them.