Building GraphQL APIs with ASP.NET Core

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Pritesh Patel edited this page Aug 6, 2019 · 1 revision

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Starting with GraphQL

The Power of GraphQL

Consumer defines the data structure it wants to receive in a query
JSON-like query structure (with intell-sense)

What is GraphQL?

An open-source specification (created by Facebook) to access data in APIs
GraphQL consumer (quereis) -> GraphQL API runtime (processes the query)
GraphQL API vs. REST API
GraphQL specification is not tied to HTTP