In my career, I've come across multiple situations where we evaluated GraphQL but decided not to go with it for different reasons. A concise summary like this would've helped a lot.
A future post that you might consider is comparing this with gRPC, REST, it'll be a great resource for software engineers.
This is an awesome overview of GraphQL, Petar. I read the book https://book.productionreadygraphql.com/ when I was first learning GraphQL and it was a game-changer for me.
I love GraphQL soooo much more than REST. How you can quickly request only the data you need and get typed versions of it is 🔥
The ability to change the API without breaking clients is a great thing. I'm sure there are limitations there to how much you can change it, but it seems much cleaner than having to do an /v1 or /v2, or having to access the resource from a different URI path.
Looking forward to the next one, I just have a vague memory of the graphql concepts defining the queries and mutations
For sure you can't change a lot stuff without breaking the clients but it's much more flexible than REST. For instance, we can easily deprecate one field, and add a new one, without breaking the clients. When the new change is consumed from all clients, we remove the one, without versioning the API.
Thank you Petar, for the comprehensive introduction, including the historical part and focusing on the kind of problems GraphQL promises to solve.
Thank you for placing my article on the ‘worth reading’ list. I appreciate it!
I'm glad you liked it! 🙌
Great overview of GraphQL, Petar.
In my career, I've come across multiple situations where we evaluated GraphQL but decided not to go with it for different reasons. A concise summary like this would've helped a lot.
A future post that you might consider is comparing this with gRPC, REST, it'll be a great resource for software engineers.
I'm glad you liked it, Akash! 🙌 And yes, I'm thinking of writing a future article comparing it with REST and gRPC.
This is an awesome overview of GraphQL, Petar. I read the book https://book.productionreadygraphql.com/ when I was first learning GraphQL and it was a game-changer for me.
I love GraphQL soooo much more than REST. How you can quickly request only the data you need and get typed versions of it is 🔥
Thanks as well for the mention!
I'm also a big fan of GraphQL than REST. I'm glad you liked it, Jordan! 🙌
Thanks for sharing this, Petar!
The ability to change the API without breaking clients is a great thing. I'm sure there are limitations there to how much you can change it, but it seems much cleaner than having to do an /v1 or /v2, or having to access the resource from a different URI path.
Looking forward to the next one, I just have a vague memory of the graphql concepts defining the queries and mutations
For sure you can't change a lot stuff without breaking the clients but it's much more flexible than REST. For instance, we can easily deprecate one field, and add a new one, without breaking the clients. When the new change is consumed from all clients, we remove the one, without versioning the API.
Thank you, Fran! 🙏
This is a great intro of GraphQL and straight to the point! Thank you, Petar!