Meta’s web API system, GraphQL, is a different kind of API. With GraphQL, developers use a strongly typed query language to define both requests and responses, allowing an application to specify ...

To make matters worse, you practically never want to retrieve an entire object from an API ... states that GraphQL is “A query language for your APIs.” Facebook has been using it internally ...

It is really a syntax for describing an API . If you take up GraphQL, you get to build whatever API you like and use GraphQL to describe the API’s types and operations. Those things then ...

GraphQL, developed internally at Facebook to help developers with API management before getting rolled out as an open source query language in 2015, has gained traction as an alternative (or ...