Hopefully your hamster is starting to spin. This is already great, but where GraphQL really starts to shine is withnested fields. Let’s assume we had another field in our schema callednutritionthat told us just how unhealthy our sarcastic kernels are: { flavors { id name nutrition { calori...
Relay is a game-changer for GraphQL once you get behind the initial learning curve. We've made it 100x easier to use and adopt. In this post, I will explain why you should give the data fetching client another look.
REST APIs have some limitations, such as over-fetching (forcing the client to load all properties even when only a few are needed for the UI). GraphQL is a great alternative to REST APIs because it allows you to request
So-called "God Queries" that fetch all the data for a page is a common pattern with GraphQL clients. Without Fragments, it's really just the same problem as with REST APIs or tRPC, just with a different syntax and the added overhead of GraphQL. ...
These are only some of the benefits of GraphQL. In the next few sections, you'll learn how GraphQL is structured and the properties that make it a unique alternative to REST. Did this page help you? Yes No
GraphQL is designed to be a flexible query language that allows you to retrieve an infinite level of nested values. The more nested items retrieved, the more joins are queried. Therefore the longer the query takes. Furthermore, the more data added to the database, the larger the underlying...
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Additionally, in case a page content is developed by multiple teams, there is a feature in GraphQL that allows to break down queries called fragments. More on code organization later. Looking at a bigger picture, the main use case for GraphQL API is an API gateway where it provide a laye...
If a modern rails-like framework is API first, then it must have an API specification. This specification should be able to generate great looking documentation as well. GraphQL and gRPC are both schema-first, but the typical RESTful API is woefully under-specified. ...