Considering GraphQL is put in the same category as REST, gRPC, and webhooks , calling it a ‘QL’ (Query Language) is a bit of a stretch. It is really a syntax for describing an API .

Listing 3: The result of a GraphQL query made against the SpaceX GraphQL API Only the full_name and wikipedia data is returned. This is the data the developer wanted, no more and no less. The actual ...

GraphQL has emerged as the favorite alternative to REST for modern web API design. GraphQL was first used internally at Facebook before being open sourced in 2015. GraphQL is described as a data query ...

Apollo's open-source GraphQL client, server, and gateway are downloaded more than 17M times per month and used in production by over 30 percent of the Fortune 500.