December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
474 pages
10h 3m
English
Although you won't be making any code changes to the GraphQL server, it's important to know how the server is functioning and what the basic concepts of GraphQL are.
GraphQL is best described as a query language for APIs and is defined as a convention for retrieving data from an API. Often, GraphQL APIs are compared to RESTful APIs, which is a well-known convention for sending HTTP requests that are dependant on multiple endpoints that will all return a separate data collection. As opposed to the well-known RESTful APIs, a GraphQL API will provide a single endpoint that lets you query and/or mutate data sources such as a database. You can query or mutate data by sending a document containing either ...