A Crash Course in GraphQL
The complexity of software applications has grown by leaps and bounds over the years.
This has led to a rise in the number of interfaces between various systems, resulting in an ever-growing API footprint.
While APIs have revolutionized the connectivity between systems, the explosion of integrations between clients and servers often leads to maintenance problems. Even minor backend changes take more implementation time since developers must analyze and test more. Despite all the effort, there are still high chances that issues creep into the application.
Refactoring the application interfaces is one way to address growing maintenance costs. However, this is costly, and there’s no guarantee that we won’t encounter similar issues as the system evolves.
What’s the solution to this problem?
GraphQL is a tool that brings a major change in how clients and servers interact. While it’s not a silver bullet, it can be a sweet spot between a complete application overhaul and doing absolutely nothing
In this issue, we’ll explore GraphQL's features and concepts, compare it to REST API and BFFs, and discuss its advantages and disadvantages.
What is GraphQL?
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