E137 - Growing a Powerful Decoupled WordPress Solution (Leonardo Losoviz, GraphQL API)

In today's episode, Joe talks to Leonardo Losoviz, a freelance developer and writer, with an ongoing quest to integrate innovative paradigms such as Serverless PHP and GraphQL into existing PHP frameworks such as WordPress. He is a one-man team running GraphQL API plugin, offering the most powerful GarphQL experience into any WordPress site.   Leonardo fearlessly shares his expertise in coding and developing websites, the ongoing challenges of promoting a new plugin, and the opportunities of building-in-public approach for developers to reach more audiences.       Episode Resources: GraphQL API Tweet Leonardo Ask Leonardo a question Leave an iTunes review or binge-watch past episodes Send questions to [email protected] for the next Q&A pod Visit the WPMRR website   What to Listen For: 00:00 Intro 02:27 Welcome to the pod, Leonardo! 03:03 The freedom of building websites as a hobby 05:03 What is GraphQL API? 12:23 Security issues on open source API 16:24 Pulling SEO data on a decoupled site 20:42 The struggles of promoting a product 24:40 How do you rate success? 28:43 Coming soon: a behind-the-scene monthly newsletter on plugin development  30:45 The building-in-public strategy 33:32 Strategies to eventually compete in the plugin market 38:56 Find Leonardo online!