13 Reasons Why You Should Use GraphQL
GraphQL is an open-source query language created by Facebook, a company that unsurprisingly remains at the pinnacle of web-based software development. Before GraphQL went open source in the year 2015, Facebook has used it internally for their mobile apps since the year 2012, as an alternative to the common REST architecture. It allows requests for specific data, giving clients more control over what information is sent. This is more difficult with a RESTful architecture because the back-end defines what data is available for each resource on each URL, while the front-end always has to ask all the information in a…
