3 years ago

Category: Database, Data

So they need APIs that expose these constructs. Backend systems, on the other hand, typically expose APIs that reflect the shape of the data on the backend.

This concept of having two views can be called abstraction (as I have done in this paragraph), and it can also be called decoupling of frontends and backends.

As I discussed in the first part of this article, query languages are awesome — for all the carping, the concept of “here’s what I want, give it to me, and I do not care how you get it” is pretty powerful.

And it is a query language because the user can ask for what she wants (as long as it is permissible in the definition of the GraphQL API endpoint).