Conway Game Of Life application

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Conway Game Of Life

A common piece of advice on how to best learn a new development language is to build an application. For example, you often see variants on ‘hello world’ to start with and then folks try progressively more challenging endeavours. This technique follows the well trodden path of crawl, walk, run and, maybe, matharons ( I guess the equivalent in these times of AI assistants would be taking a metaphorical taxi to speed up the journey ).

Lets figure out the GraphQL for Conway Game Of Life

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

GraphQL for Conway Game Of Life

In my last post I covered setting up GraphQL for AuraDB with this Schema / Type Definition

type Cell @node {
 cellsConnected: [Cell!]! @relationship(type: "NEIGHBOUR_OF", direction: IN)
 connectedCells: [Cell!]! @relationship(type: "NEIGHBOUR_OF", direction: OUT)
 alive: Boolean!
 id: String!
 x: BigInt!
 y: BigInt!
}

and checked it was all working with a very simple GraphQL Query

curl --location 'YOUR_GRAPHQL_DATA_API_URL' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
--data '{"query":"query getAllCells {\n cells {\n alive\n id\n x\n y\n }\n }","variables":{}}'

Which means we have arrived at the point to start thinking about the GraphQL queries and mutations that will be needed as part of the implementation of Conway Game Of Life.

Conway on Work In Progress

Conway Game Of Life application