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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.

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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
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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.

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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.

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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
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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
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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
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Streaming Output and Tool Calls

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

Advanced 6 min read
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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
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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