I thought GraphQL was magic. Turns out it’s not.

It’s hard to learn new things, isn’t it? When I first started to learn Python, it looked like an indiscriminately shuffled string of stray symbols. But eventually I learned; I connected it with concepts I knew from other languages. Later on, I learned JavaScript and went through the same thing; I didn’t understand the syntax, so it just looked like a bunch of meaningless characters to me. But once I saw the similarities with languages I already understood, it started to click. I originally had the same reaction to GraphQL queries. It seemed difficult at first, but I came around after I realized the key to learning it was just like the technologies I’d learned before, and now I use it almost every day.

I’m just like every other developer: I want to learn new things but sometimes struggle with remembering the details and grasping the why of it all, so I figured I’d write this post to explain where I started with GraphQL and how I got to where I am now.

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