Why and How GraphQL Is The Best Tool For Efficient Data Fetching- GO Tech Blog
Just recently our GO Dev team embarked on a project to integrate Monday.com cloud service to one of our internal components. Their API was GraphQL and that's why we came to work with this technology. GraphQL is an API standard that provides a more efficient, powerful and flexible alternative to REST. It was developed and open-sourced by Facebook. At its core, GraphQL enables declarative data fetching where a client can specify exactly what data he needs from an API. Instead of multiple endpoints that return fixed data structures, a GraphQL server exposes only a single endpoint and responds precisely with the data the client asked for. In this technical article we will explain the what, why, and how you can use GraphQL based on our recent experience. GraphQL vs REST GraphQL was developed to cope with the need of more flexibility and efficiency. It solves many of the shortcomings and inefficiencies that developers experience when interacting with REST APIs. Data Fetching Let us assu