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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

The more time I spent messing around with APIs for learning technologies, the more I appreciate the need for a common approach like GraphQL, which "is both an open source query language for an API and a server-side runtime for executing queries. It enables the use of a type system that developers define for their data." The image this article provides is particularly useful in making the concept clear, showing a request for a number of posts with a certian number of properties and also desired relationships such as 'author' and 'company'.

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