Rethinking GraphQL Frontends with Robert Balicki

Rethinking GraphQL Frontends with Robert Balicki

Author: softwareengineeringdaily.com September 23, 2025 Duration: 38:50
A challenge in modern frontend application design is efficiently fetching and managing GraphQL data while keeping UI components responsive and maintainable. Developers often face issues like over-fetching, under-fetching, and handling complex query dependencies, which can lead to performance bottlenecks and increased development effort. Relay is a JavaScript framework developed by Meta for managing GraphQL data in React applications. It's designed to optimize data fetching by colocating queries with components, ensuring that each part of the UI declares its own data dependencies. Robert Balicki was on the Relay team at Meta and is now a Staff Software Engineer at Pinterest. He is currently developing Isograph, which provides a declarative and type-safe approach to data fetching. Robert joins the show to talk about challenges and solutions for managing data in frontend applications. Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.    Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com

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