Exercise: Schema planning

Exercise: Schema planning with federation

🎯 Goal: Discuss and plan what a federated schema for Airlock should look like.

Explore the app: https://odyssey-airlock.netlify.app/

Discuss with your partner

What subgraphs should we create? What domain is each subgraph responsible for?
What types and fields should belong in which subgraph?

Here are some questions to help guide you:

What object types do you see in the mockups above? What fields belong to each type?
What factors might you want to consider to help with your schema planning?

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Task!

I've discussed the schema plan!

Solution

There are many different possible solutions, but here's what we came up with!

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