Bruce Williams - Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe

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Wed like to thank our editor, Jackie Carter, and the rest of the staff at The Pragmatic Bookshelf for their guidance and assistance turning this book into a reality. While its a clich, writing a book is hard workand it would have been immeasurably more difficult without your help. Likewise, a small army of technical reviewersAndrea Leopardi, Brian OGrady, Chad Wooley, Chengyin Liu, Gabor Hajba, Jack Marchant, James Fish, Jesse Cooke, Kim Shieir, Lou Xun, Mark Goody, Nate Vick, Paulo A. Pereira, Rodrigo Franco, and Sebastian Koschhelped us improve the content and code in this book. Any remaining issues fall squarely and solely on our shoulders.

Bruce would like to thank his wife, Melissa, and their three sonsBraedyn, Jamis, and Colewithout whose love, support, and deep, abiding well of patience, no book would be worth writing (or would get done in the first place). Hed also like to thank Maria Gutierrez, a dear friend who hell eventually forgive for the gentle nudge that convinced him to invest the time to write another book.

Ben is grateful to his colleagues, friends, and family for their seemingly endless willingness to listen, offer advice, and humor the most insane ideas throughout this process. In particular, Ben wants to thank his wife, Becca, whose constant care and dedication to those around her serves as both an inspiration and a daily joy.

Finally, wed like to show our appreciation for those who have contributed to Absinthe, the project this book covers.

We deeply appreciate the time and encouragement given to us by Jos Valim and Chris McCord as the Absinthe project has grown. Their answers to hard questions and warnings about pitfalls, their open minds and imaginations, have made all the difference between the project becoming a fun yet subtly broken toy, and a robust, useful tool for the Elixir/Phoenix community they lead.