Chapter 1: Understanding GraphQL Through REST

Chapter 1 is a basic introduction to GraphQL through the eyes of the technology it’s replacing, REST. If you’re already sold on GraphQL and familiar with the basics, feel free to skip ahead to Chapter 2: Query Language for theory or Chapter 5: Client Dev and Chapter 11: Server Dev for coding.

Chapter contents:

• Introduction
• GraphQL as an alternative to a REST API
• A simple REST API server
• A simple GraphQL server
• Querying a set of data
• Filtering the data
• Async data loading
• Multiple types of data
• Security and error handling
• Tying this all together