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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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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 …

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.

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 …

When designing a GraphQL schema, it’s important to keep in mind all the problems that could go wrong and if “null” is an appropriate value for a failed field. Typically it is, but occasionally, it’s …