What to do when you can’t just change the schema — If you’re using GraphQL and Apollo to build an app, sooner or later you’ll run into cases where there are queries that depend on each other. In an ideal world, each screen would use just one query to fetch all of the information it needs. …

This post covers the importance of having Analytics in your GraphQL, and when to take action on optimizing your app based on your observations. At OK GROW! we use the Apollo Engine to analyze our GraphQL endpoints performance and optimize slow queries and mutations. Optimization and when to avoid it “Programmers waste enormous amounts of time…

Imagine this scenario: you have finally turned your latest startup idea into an app and everything is working perfectly. Everything is working perfectly, except getting things like audio recording and image and data fetching to run in the background. At OK GROW! …

This is part two of a two-part series. In Part 1 we looked at the options available for recording a user’s location. We introduced React Native’s pure approach, Expo’s API, and the react-native-background-geolocation package, as three approaches for gathering a user’s location data. Part 2 — Displaying a user’s location on the map and normalizing location data. Raise your hand if you’ve ever been…

Let’s say you’re starting your next project, and your app is location-based. Which means you have to record your user’s location and display it on the map. At OK GROW! we use React Native which equips you with various libraries for doing so, without having to write any native code…