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What is GraphQL? - REST Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to Web APIs
What is GraphQL?
- [Instructor] Throughout this course, we've been focusing on and working with REST APIs. As I said earlier, we're not really concerned with API terminology like REST. For the most part, REST APIs and just APIs are pretty synonymous. But now, we are going to talk a bit about a new type of API called GraphQL. REST and GraphQL are basically two different ways of structuring APIs when building them. And since, in this course, we're focusing on consuming or using them, how they're built isn't really something we're concerned with. GraphQL is not the focus of this course. So this is meant to just be a very simple introduction to GraphQL. I'm going to try to keep it as simple as possible. If you are interested in learning more about GraphQL, there are other wonderful courses on LinkedIn Learning specifically focused on it. GraphQL is a newer way of creating APIs. One of the main characteristics of GraphQL is that it allows…
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