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When discussing API design, REST or Representational State Transfer is what comes to mind first. It is a standard tool used for data retrieval from the server that accesses data by URLs.
Client applications whilst progressing into the new millennium was relatively simple. That is when REST had been developed and it became a good fit for many applications in due course of time.
GraphQL is a query language for APIs that allows clients to request limited data they need, making it possible for clients to gather data in a limited number of requests. GraphQL is a strongly-typed protocol and all data operations are validated against a GraphQL schema.
In this article, we will look at a GraphQL Java example and build a simple GraphQL server with Spring Boot.