GraphQL vs. REST API: What’s the Difference? According to Ryan Anderson, platform architect at Perfect Sense, both GraphQL and REST utilize JSON as the primary data communication format.

Unlike REST APIs, GraphQL APIs only have a single endpoint to retrieve all the required data for an app. GraphQL’s biggest strengths are that they let you control exactly what data is received ...

Developed by Facebook in 2012, GraphQL allows client services to request precisely the data they need from a server, making it more efficient and flexible compared with REST APIs.

The key difference between the terms REST versus RESTful is that REST refers to a philosophy about the architecture and design of web services, while the term RESTful refers to any API that properly ...

When we ask the SpaceX REST API for the land pad data, the size of the JSON array returned is 8.18 KB. Remember, the REST API has to return all the fields, all the time. The efficiency GraphQL ...

The open source query language GraphQL is the future of APIs, but getting it to hum (and hum at scale) takes some strategizing. Here’s what we’ve learned.

We expect this to benefit Hasura users today, organizations adopting GraphQL across different teams, and teams with great REST APIs looking to provide a GraphQL API instantly to their customers ...

The addition of REST support is a bridging strategy that will make it easier for organizations conducting modern API-driven development to run their GraphQL queries without having to create new ...

GraphQL, developed internally at Facebook to help developers with API management before getting rolled out as an open source query language in 2015, has gained traction as an alternative (or ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network’s API series written by Shahar Binyamin, CEO and co-founder at Inigo, a GraphQL security and management platform. Binyamin writes ...