Beautiful, Short, IDs in GraphQL (or other things) with SQIDs 🦑

Note, I&rsquo;ll use Ruby on Rails 💎 as my example for this post but this can be done in nearly all modern language as SQIDs support most of them . They&rsquo;re also interoperable, so you can generate in Ruby and decode in another C# service. Why does GraphQL need Global IDs? In GraphQL has the concept of Global Object Identification . Each item in the API has a unique Global ID. If you&rsquo;re…