Introduction to GraphQL and using it to access Github's GraphQL API

GraphQL is a new API standard that provides a more efficient, powerful and flexible alternative to REST. In this talk I will give you an introduction to GraphQL and then show you how to use it to access Github’s GraphQL API.

GraphQL is a new API standard that provides a more efficient, powerful and flexible alternative to REST. At its core, GraphQL enables declarative data fetching where a client can specify exactly what data it needs from an API. Instead of multiple endpoints that return fixed data structures, a GraphQL server only exposes a single endpoint and responds with precisely the data a client asked for. In this talk I will give you an introduction to GraphQL and then show you how to use it to access Github’s GraphQL API.