What is GraphQL? GraphQL is an open‑source query language for APIs and a server‑side runtime. It provides a strongly‑typed schema to define relationships between data, making …

Find answers to the most common questions about GraphQL — from getting started to advanced use cases. This also covers frontend concerns and info about the official specification.

May 30, 2025 · Thanks to funding from the GraphQL Foundation, I’m working on migrating GraphiQL to the Monaco code editor — a long-awaited update that’s been on our roadmap for …

There are many resources available to help you learn GraphQL, including this website. In our documentation, you’ll find a series of articles that explain essential GraphQL concepts and …

GraphQL supports three main operation types—queries, mutations, and subscriptions. We have already seen several examples of basic queries in this guide, and on this page, you’ll learn in …

GraphQL was designed to work with relatively small requests from clients, and was not designed with handling binary data in mind. File uploads, by contrast, typically handle binary data such …

The GraphQL Foundation’s Composite Schema Working Group, which includes engineers from various organizations across the industry including Apollo GraphQL, ChilliCream, Graphile, …

Now that you understand the different phases of a GraphQL request and how responses are provided to clients, head over to the Introspection page to learn about how a GraphQL server …

Jul 2, 2025 · In 2015, when GraphQL was first introduced, it solved a very human problem: helping developers query exactly the data they needed, no more and no less. It introduced a …

On this page, we’ll explore how clients can subscribe to details of events on a GraphQL server using subscription operations. Many of the features of GraphQL operations that apply to …