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My Experience with GraphQL

Ruairidh W McHardy on July 30, 2019

What is GraphQL? GraphQL is described as ‘a query language for your API’. It was created by Facebook back in 2012 for use in their mobil...
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Sam Benskin

I'm a big fan of GraphQL for all the reasons you mention but haven't had much of a chance to use it yet, but you can be sure if there's ever a choice now for me it's always going to be GraphQL over REST unless there's a very good reason to use REST.

There's a wealth of supporting tools to interrogate the API you've just specified too, if I get a chance I'll try to write an article about my favourites and how they can help you