A GraphQL Primer: Why We Need A New Kind Of API (Part 1)

In this series, I want to introduce you to GraphQL. By the end, you should understand not just what it is but also its origins, its drawbacks and the basics of how to work with it. In this first article, rather than jumping into the implementation, I want to go over how and why we have arrived at GraphQL (and similar tools) by looking at the lessons learned from the last 60 years of API development, from RPC to now.
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