As developers and even as product owners, we’ve been burned before when taking shortcuts. A few years back I was working on a large transformation project, we focused heavily on low and no-code approaches to developing RESTful APIs.
With GraphQL being a client-centric technology, it allows you to have fine control over how you request your data. Query responses in GraphQL contain the exact data you’ve asked for, no more and no less.
GraphQL is gaining wider adoption day by day as a powerful tool for building APIs. It addresses many shortcomings of prevalent solutions like REST while providing strengths through its unique philosophy of modeling application data more effectively.
Everyone wants to build the next unicorn of a modern application. Whether you’re building a prototype or expanding your existing product, the goal is to reach a massive user base.
Dgraph is the world’s first (and only at this time) native GraphQL database. While this statement may sound oxymoronic to some, it tells a story of the advancements made by Dgraph Labs and their journey to becoming the #1 graph database.
GraphQL is a query language and runtime for APIs, intended to be a replacement for REST. GraphQL offers a more efficient and flexible way for building APIs and scaling.