Chapter 6: Sanity's GraphQL Playground
This chapter introduces GraphQL, a powerful query language. Sanity's GraphQL API enables external programs to interact with its structured content while following the standard that it provides. This allows developers to leverage the rich GraphQL ecosystem of tools and practices that are available in the development community. Both GraphQL and GROQ, which is Sanity's proprietary query language, are open source and can be used to interact with Sanity. However, while GROQ is specific to Sanity, GraphQL is universally used by many applications.
In this chapter, we will explain what GraphQL is, examine some of the basic queries and their format, introduce Sanity's GraphQL Playground, and learn how to use it ...
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