GraphQL is a query language for your API. It simplifies the process of requesting the server by providing convenient ways to query objects.
For instance, if you’re using a REST API and you need a list of books, you might hit the GET /books/list
endpoint for all books. Then if you need a specific book by ID, you would hit GET /book?id={id}
, which means you’ll be making multiple requests to the server.
But GraphQL does something called declarative data fetching, where you can ask for what you want and get a predictable result in a single request.
Awesome right? Let’s see how it all works.
In this article, you’ll learn the basics of GraphQL by using the Laravel GraphQL package to build a server that does the following:
Here are a few things you’ll need for this tutorial:
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