For a long time, REST was the de facto way to design APIs. Then in 2015, Facebook open-sourced GraphQL and marketed it as a hot new alternative to REST.

In 2015, GraphQL went open source. Mark Olson, senior communications manager at Trulia, explained that GraphQL is an alternative to REST API.

REST APIs have become the workhorse of modern, API-driven application development. By adding this new conversion utility, IT organizations do not have to create and manage a separate set of APIs.

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.

With REST, you send a request to a request-specific URL and receive the results in whatever format makes sense for the application. Meta’s web API system, GraphQL, is a different kind of API.

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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 ...