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Engineering

GraphQL

GraphQL is a query language and runtime for APIs in which the client specifies the exact structure of the data it requires, and the server returns precisely that shape in a single response.

It eliminates over-fetching and reduces round trips, which is why it suits mobile clients and complex nested views.

The costs are real: caching is harder than with REST, arbitrary query depth creates performance risk, and the server implementation is considerably more involved.