#GraphQL
5 articles
Comparing API Styles: REST, GraphQL, gRPC, Webhooks, WebSocket, and Messaging
Six common API styles, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, Webhooks, WebSocket, and Messaging, compared side by side. This article organizes them by communication model, lays out each style's overview, design considerations, and pros and cons, and gives guidance for choosing. A map for picking a style in API design.
When to Use GraphQL: Adoption Criteria and Trade-offs
When should you adopt GraphQL? This guide covers its core ideas (a typed schema, a single endpoint, fetching exactly what you need), where it fits and where it does not, the trade-offs, operational concerns such as N+1, and how it compares with REST and gRPC.
What is GraphQL Federation? How It Unifies Microservices
Learn what GraphQL Federation is and how subgraphs, a gateway, and schema composition unify multiple microservices into a single graph.
What is GraphQL? A Complete Guide with Practical Examples
Summarizing what I researched while practicing GraphQL.
What is GraphQL
Understand GraphQL as a query language for APIs with flexible data selection, single endpoint, and type system advantages.