GraphQL Best Practices
Explore essential GraphQL best practices to design effective APIs. Understand the role of HTTP integration, pagination, authorization, nullability, and server-side batching. Learn how to evolve schemas without versioning and improve server response with caching techniques.
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The GraphQL specification doesn’t provide ready-made solutions for a handful of essential APIs, such as dealing with the network, authorization, and pagination. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t answers for these problems when using GraphQL API.
In this final GraphQL lesson, we’ll look at some of the standard best practices for GraphQL.
HTTP
GraphQL typically serves over HTTP via the endpoint /graphql, which expresses the complete set of capabilities of the service. In contrast, REST APIs expose a suite of URLs, such as /pizza/1 and /pizza/, each revealing a single resource. While ...