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GraphQL is an open-source query language for APIs and a runtime for executing those queries. It was developed by Facebook to address the problem of over-fetching or under-fetching data, which is a common issue with traditional REST APIs. Matt Bessey is a Principal Engineer and Software Architect. Earlier this year Matt wrote a blog post […]
It’s always a gas when a good person doing good work gets a good deal. In this case, Jason’s viral WPGraphQL plugin has not only become a canonical WordPress plugin, but creator Jason Bahl is joining Automattic as well. I’m linking this up because it’s notable for a few reasons: Congrats, Jason! I didn’t know […]
⚡ At Buffer, we’re committed to full transparency — which means building in public and sharing how our engineers work. You’ll find more content like this on our Overflow Blog here. We’ve all experienced it at some point — a change is deployed to an API and suddenly, clients stop working. User experience deteriorates, negative […]
GraphQL has been on my list of technologies to learn for a few months now, and last week I came across Majid Jabrayilov’s post, feeling pretty excited to tackle the subject. The post was very good, but it didn’t answer the one question I’ve had as I’ve gone through numerous exercises to understand GraphQL, how […]
That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong GraphQL has redefined the way of writing APIs by providing an elegant way to declare and query data. Structuring models and their relationships, and querying those models for specific data can be done using a simple Schema Definition Language (SDL). […]