To illustrate how this might be the case, Anderson provided an example of how the endpoints of both REST and GraphQL would look like in an API-first CMS: Anderson explained that this difference in ...

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.

Survival in the larger API economy depends ... 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 ...

Developed by Facebook, GraphQL ... examples. One of the main problems developers face when using REST APIs is that you can get either more or less information than your front-end application actually ...

Developers are increasingly flocking to GraphQL to overcome REST API shortcomings. Skillfully wielding the open source API data query language enables developers to build faster and more stable ...

Another important caveat is not to let old REST API design habits dictate ... as per the “upvote/downvote” in this example. Underneath it all, a GraphQL query polls and retrieves data the ...

GraphQL is a relatively new API technology, but only a few of the common concerns are justified, expains Martin Buhr GraphQL has recently become a source of much hype in our world of application ...