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LangGraph 101

A practical guide series for learning LangGraph - the framework that turns brittle, one-shot AI agents into ones that loop, branch, remember, and know when to ask a human. Written by people who build agents for a living.

Foundations → Practitioner · ~53 minutes total
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A LangGraph agent: nodes do the work, edges decide what happens next - including looping back.

FOUNDATIONS

Start Here

Never touched LangGraph, or only skimmed the docs once? These two guides get you oriented.

What Is LangGraph? (And Why Not Just LangChain)

The plain-English version: what problem it actually solves, and when you need it versus when you don't.

Foundations 5 min read

The Building Blocks: State, Nodes, Edges & Graphs

Four ideas that cover almost everything - once these click, the rest of LangGraph is just combinations of them.

Foundations 6 min read
HANDS-ON

Build Something

Time to go from reading about graphs to actually running one.

Build Your First LangGraph Agent

A hands-on walkthrough - define the state, wire up the nodes, add a conditional edge, and run it.

Hands-On 7 min read

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ADVANCED

Make It Production-Ready

The things that separate a demo from something you'd actually trust in production - reliability, the shapes agents take, and getting it live.

Memory & Persistence: Making Agents Reliable

Checkpointers, threads, and why your agent should be able to survive a crash without losing its place.

Advanced 6 min read

Human-in-the-Loop & Multi-Agent Patterns

How to make a graph pause for approval, and how to split one big agent into several smaller, focused ones.

Advanced 7 min read

Common Agent Patterns: ReAct, Reflection, and Planning

The three shapes most LangGraph agents take, and when to reach for each one.

Advanced 7 min read

Streaming Output and Tool Calls

Showing progress instead of a spinner - the three stream modes and when to use each.

Advanced 6 min read

Deploying LangGraph: Platform, Cloud, and Self-Hosting

Getting from "it works locally" to a real API, and the three paths to get there.

Advanced 7 min read

Debugging with LangGraph Studio

Visual, step-through, time-travel debugging for graphs that loops make hard to reason about with print statements.

Advanced 6 min read