You're reading from GraphQL Best Practices Gain hands-on experience with schema design, security, and error handling

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835467145

Length 422 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

GraphQL

Concepts

Web Programming

Author (1):

Artur Czemiel

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 - Why GraphQL?

2. Chapter 1: Unveiling the Holy Grail of Communication – GraphQL FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Applying an AI-Friendly Approach to GraphQL

4. Part 2 - Schema-First Design Patterns

5. Chapter 3: Crafting Effective GraphQL Schemas

6. Chapter 4: Building Pipes

7. Part 3 - Exploring Possible Ways to Use GraphQL

8. Chapter 5: Transitioning from REST to GraphQL

9. Chapter 6: Defining GraphQL Transformers

10. Chapter 7: Understanding GraphQL Federation

11. Part 4 - Advanced GraphQL

12. Chapter 8: Executing Schema-First Systems

13. Chapter 9: Working on the Frontend with GraphQL

14. Chapter 10: Keeping Data Secure

15. Chapter 11: Describing Errors in GraphQL

16. Chapter 12: Documenting your Schema

17. Chapter 13: Tackling Schemas with Visualization

18. Part 5 - From an Idea to a Working Project

19. Chapter 14: From an Idea to a Working Project – Backend Development with GraphQL and TypeScript

20. Chapter 15: From an Idea to a Working Project – Frontend Integration with GraphQL and TypeScript

21. Index

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Navigating the OpenAI playground

As mentioned in the Technical requirements section, to play with all the AI examples in this chapter, you need an OpenAI account to access their interactive playground.

After creating the account, you can access the playground that we will use in this chapter at https://platform.openai.com/playground/assistants. The playground should look like this:

Figure 2.1: The OpenAI playground

From here, you can create an AI assistant (also known as a chatbot) – this is a virtual entity powered by AI that is designed to assist and support individuals with various tasks, providing personalized and intelligent responses based on user input.

To create and use the AI assistant, the main parts of the interface you need to know are as follows:

Name: This is where you enter the name of the assistant.
Instructions: This is where you enter the system message for your assistant, used to specify its behavior.
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