GitLab Incubation Engineering, 27 Feb 2022

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From YouTube: Incubation Engineering Jamstack -- Weekly Demo February 27th 2022

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TL;DR: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/incubation-engineering/jamstack/meta/-/issues/35

Netlify Graph Issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/incubation-engineering/jamstack/meta/-/issues/34

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Hi everyone welcome to this week's dance tech. Incubation engineering, update I've made more progress with the pipeline wizard. I was able to split off another mr from the original one, so the whole pipeline wizard component now consists of nine. Mrs, in the last update, I had five merged now we're at seven again a huge thanks to all the reviewers and maintainers involved.

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After that's done, anyone contributing to gitapp will be able to use the wizard as a component and I'll be the first user and use it to onboard to gitlab pages, and I've already prepared an mmr for this.

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So what else happened in the glam stack? Space netlify has just published metallify graph. I've had a very quick look at it. Maybe I'll do a demo sometime soon, but just to give you a quick overview over what it does.

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Netify graph is a function built into the network service they've taken the effort to take some of the most commonly used apis, stripe, salesforce, github and a few others, and they offer those apis as graphql to serverless endpoints. So as a developer, I can, for example, query the stripe api using graphql query as a serverless function.

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Now how that's how's that different from querying the api directly well, the biggest win is that all the glue code has been taken care of. If we use graphql, there's no need to switch or convert to rest, also authentication. We can just enter our service api key in netify.

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Now we don't need to proxy user request through our backend server to add the right headers same for authorization, network offers limiting the visible fields and methods, and I think I'll need to verify that oauth integration.

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We could now use netfly graph to hydrate server-side render pages with api responses.

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So I think this is something is super useful, but offering the api glue puts netfly in a very difficult difficult position where they need to be able to keep up with api changes of all their offered. Integrations so it'll be very interesting to see how they keep this up.

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Apart from the opportunity, this offers to developers they're asking for other big api maintainers to join the service offering. So that is something we as gitlab should definitely be considering.

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Let me know what you think about that, and I'd be happy to establish the connection here anyway. This was it for this week's update. I hope to see you again by the end of the week until then, bye.