How to get a free GraphQL certification — Apollo Graph Developer
Getting certified is always awesome for us developers! With the hype of GraphQL, demonstrating skills and mastery over this specification becomes increasingly interesting. Apollo, one of the most famous companies that maintain GraphQL solutions, has the Apollo Odyssey program, which offers free complete training in its frameworks for using GraphQL, guaranteeing at the end an “Associate” level certification, proving its knowledge and allowing the be associated with Linkedin !
To start your certification, just access the website https://odyssey.apollographql.com/ . You will need to create an account on the platform, but don’t worry! The videos are very didactic and will teach you how to do this too.
The Apollo Odyssey platform is composed of topics where they have tasks necessary to complete to obtain certification. The tasks consist of the following activities:
- Video/text class;
- Questionnaires about the content;
- Projects to be cloned locally to carry out the challenges;
- Delivery of a final project demonstrating all the knowledge obtained;
The training focuses on a Full Stack developer scenario, where we will use JavaScript in the tasks that will be performed. If you are not very proficient in JavaScript the tasks are guided and the examples will help you gain more knowledge and complete the challenges.
We will perform the following tasks:
- Apollo Server — Apollo Server is an open source GraphQL server compatible with your specifications. At this point we will use Node.
- Apollo Client — Apollo Client is a comprehensive state management library for JavaScript that allows you to manage local and remote data with GraphQL. For these tasks we will use React.
- Apollo Studio — Apollo Studio is a cloud platform that helps you create, validate, and secure your organization’s org chart.
- Heroku — Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) that allows developers to build, run and operate applications entirely in the cloud. We will use it to publish our project. Follow my project to give a taste of what will be built at the end https://apollo-certification-client.herokuapp.com/ .
Upon completion of the training, an incredible certification will be released, demonstrating mastery in the aborted topics. The course is very complete, and even for those who already have a good knowledge of GraphQL.
It’s also worth adding to Linkedin and making your profile even more complete!
Soon, new training will be available on the Apollo Odyssey platform, covering content such as the Apollo Federation. I’m currently working at Globoplay where we have a very complex GraphQL case that motivates me daily to seek new knowledge on the subject.
If you have any questions about the Apollo Odyssey and its training, I’m happy to help, you can find my contacts at https://kevinmmartins.github.io/ .
Thank you so much for reading!
