
GraphQL | A query language for your API
GraphQL provides a complete and understandable description of the data in your API, gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more, makes it easier to …
Introduction to GraphQL
GraphQL is a query language for your API, and a server-side runtime for executing queries using a type system you define for your data. The GraphQL specification was open-sourced in 2015 …
Queries - GraphQL
Learn how to fetch data from a GraphQL server. GraphQL supports three main operation types—queries, mutations, and subscriptions. We have already seen several examples of …
Schemas and Types | GraphQL
Depending on what library is selected to build a GraphQL service, we can define a schema in a language-agnostic way using SDL or by compiling the schema from the code that provides …
Getting Started - GraphQL
GraphQL is a specification typically used for remote client-server communications. Unlike SQL, GraphQL is agnostic to the data source(s) used to retrieve data and persist changes. …
Thinking in Graphs | GraphQL
With GraphQL, you model your business domain as a graph by defining a schema; within your schema, you define different types of nodes and how they connect/relate to one another. On …
GraphQL Best Practices
GraphQL Best Practices. The GraphQL specification is intentionally silent on a handful of important issues facing APIs such as dealing with the network, authorization, and pagination.
Response | GraphQL
Learn how GraphQL returns data to clients. After a GraphQL document has been validated and executed, the server will return a response to the requesting client. One of GraphQL’s …
Tools and Libraries - GraphQL
graphql-go-tools implements all basic blocks for building GraphQL Servers, Gateways and Proxy Servers. From lexing, parsing, validation, normalization, all the way up to query planning and …
Best Practices - GraphQL
How can I document my GraphQL API? One of the benefits of GraphQL is that it’s inherently self-documenting. This means that when you use an interactive tool like GraphiQL, you’re able to …