Let's now quickly try to understand what GraphQL is and why it is all the rage these days:
The official GraphQL logo
We'll start with a quick refresher about REST.
Let's now quickly try to understand what GraphQL is and why it is all the rage these days:
We'll start with a quick refresher about REST.
GraphQL (https://graphql.org) is a query language created at Facebook around 2012. Facebook's goal with GraphQL was to create an efficient querying and data fetching API, able to simply and efficiently query/retrieve anything from Facebook's enormous data graph.
The first thing to understand about GraphQL is that there are two parts to it: