How to be a Web Developer: A Complete Beginner's Guide on What to Know and Where to Start

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R. NicoaraHow to be a Web Developerhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9663-9_4

4. GraphQL and JavaScript

Radu Nicoara¹  

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Berlin, Germany

 

Before you move on to building your app, you need to learn a bit more about the technologies at the core of most modern web applications. This chapter covers JavaScript, the programming language that you will use in your project, as well as GraphQL, which is the modern way to transfer data through an Application Programming Interface (API).

GraphQL

GraphQL is a way in which you can communicate with the server side of an application, in order to send and receive data. It is currently one of the newest and most commonly ...