Definitely agree there is a lack of easily accessible information on coins. I started putting together https://www.orc.press though my sense is that it's overly technical for most users.
TLDR: The Ripple platform is intended for use by large financial institutions to facilitate the exchange of one asset for another (e.g. USD for EUR or gold buillon for XRP). XRP's primary use is as a bridge currency and it can facilitate conversions like USD -> XRP -> EUR or gold -> XRP -> JPY.
I don’t think the article is saying we should do away with passwords altogether, just that they aren’t always necessary. The advantage of using magic links is that it requires users to have to remember one less password
It sounds like your child components should be fetching their own data via their own graphql queries rather than consuming it as props from the parent that's rendering them.
That way the parent can just render whatever components it wants without having to worry about what data they require.
There's nothing that you can do with a RESTful api that can't be done with GraphQL. If you wanted to you could build a RESTful GraphQL api -- we did this at my previous company.
GraphQL allows you to do things though like query for nested data structures without making round trips, require typed arguments for queries, and pass arguments to specific fields, things that would take a bit of doing with a non-GraphQL api.
It's certainly not perfect, for example I at least have found query tuning for large nested queries to be a bit more complicated than I'd like it to be, but overall I've had a really positive experience with it and unless I have a good reason not to will be using it for any apis I'm building going forward.
Software can be kind of a "fake it till you make it" industry, and when you're starting out, a big part of that is embellishing your resume. You shouldn't put anything on there that you really know nothing about, but if you can talk about it at least a little bit, its often better to include than to not.
Hey, Forward is looking for 5 freelancers at the moment and are in particular in need of a) rails engineers and b) react engineers.
More info on us here:
https://forward.id
and on the specific roles here:
https://work.forward.id
Feel free to reach out directly to zach@forward