Understanding GraphQL for Beginners–Part One - Shopify

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This post introduces GraphQL as an alternative to RESTful APIs, explaining its benefits for data fetching. It details how GraphQL allows clients to specify the exact data they need, contrasting this with REST's fixed responses. The post uses analogies (burgers, banks) and examples to illustrate the differences and advantages of GraphQL, such as reducing over-fetching and under-fetching, enabling rapid product iterations on the frontend, and consolidating multiple endpoints into a single 'smart' endpoint. It sets the stage for a subsequent post that will detail implementing GraphQL in a Ruby on Rails application.