I'm trying to evaluate LangGraph for automating some data processing workflows. The community here and on Discord has been great at answering specific questions.
But I keep hitting a wall with the official docs and tutorials. They jump from a basic "Hello World" graph straight into complex multi-agent examples with StateGraph and built-in tool nodes. There's a big missing middle—like how to properly structure a real, but *simple*, production chain. For instance, connecting a custom Python function that cleans data to a conditional branch based on the result isn't covered step-by-step.
Has anyone else felt this gap? I'd love to see more beginner-to-intermediate real-world examples, maybe for a simple ETL or API orchestration task, to bridge that understanding.