Anyone who's ever tried to build distributed applications (dApps) on the (Ethereum) blockchain would concur: Although blockchains are conceptually quite close to databases, querying databases feels ...

Learn how the open standard for querying data is different from REST and Swagger, and how you can use it to build more flexible and responsive APIs. When most software developers think of web APIs, we ...

GraphQL seems to be spreading like wildfire, and there's a reason for that. As REST APIs are proliferating, the promise of accessing them all through a single query language and hub, which is what ...

GraphQL gives clients who call your Web services the ability to specify what properties of your data objects they want. Here are two ways to let those clients also specify which data objects they want ...

The name kind of gives it away, but Apollo GraphQL has long focused on helping developers use the GraphQL query language for APIs to integrate data from a variety of services. Over the course of the ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Representational state transfer, popularly known as REST, is all the rage these days. First ...

Facebook has reconstructed its Relay JavaScript framework for building data-driven applications for easier use. Renamed Relay Modern, the updated framework features a GraphQL framework incorporating ...