9 Consuming GraphQL APIs
This chapter covers
- Running a GraphQL mock server to test our API design
- Using the GraphiQL client to explore and consume a GraphQL API
- Running queries and mutations against a GraphQL API
- Consuming a GraphQL API programmatically using cURL and Python
This chapter teaches you how to consume GraphQL APIs. As we learned in chapter 8, GraphQL offers a query language for web APIs, and in this chapter you’ll learn how to use this language to run queries on the server. In particular, you’ll learn how to make queries against a GraphQL API. You’ll learn to explore a GraphQL API to discover its available types, queries, and mutations. Understanding how GraphQL APIs work from the client side is an important step toward mastering ...
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