Facebook’s GraphQL gets its own open-source foundation

Re:Facebook’s GraphQL gets its own open-source foundation by atombender on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @06:12PM (#18395723)

GraphQL isn't a query language, it's an API protocol language. Big difference.

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Re:Facebook’s GraphQL gets its own open-source foundation by aikah on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @06:49PM (#18395946)

Well it is a query language, QL stands for query language.

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Re:Facebook’s GraphQL gets its own open-source foundation by atombender on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @06:57PM (#18395996)

The name doesn't make it so. It defines a syntax and a single operator (nesting), but nothing else. You can't use it to "query" arbitrary data sources in the sense that other query languages such as SQL do, since there are no operators, functions, subqueries/arbitrary joins etc. It's an alternative to REST, not SQL.

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Re:Facebook’s GraphQL gets its own open-source foundation by degyves on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @07:06PM (#18396062)

I think you should read the definition right from the website: https://graphql.org/learn/

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Re:Facebook’s GraphQL gets its own open-source foundation by degyves on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @06:57PM (#18395999)

From the website: "GraphQL is a query language for your API"

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Re:Facebook’s GraphQL gets its own open-source foundation by atombender on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @07:01PM (#18396024)

See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18395996.

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