How We Build a Clone of r/place with GraphQL
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Originally posted on Medium as part of the Neo4j Developer Blog
r/place was a collaborative project and social experiment hosted on Reddit on April Fools’ Day 2017 and repeated again on April Fools’ Day 2022. ~ Wikipedia
The GraphQL team at Neo4j recently released beta support for GraphQL Subscriptions in the @neo4j/graphql library. Subscriptions allow clients to listen to changes in their Neo4j database for their real-time applications.
To showcase this feature at the 2022 GraphConnect conference, we decided to build a demo, based on the famous r/place, called neo/place.