GraphQL is an MIT-licensed project originally developed at Facebook in 2012 and open-sourced a few years later. It is rapidly increasing in popularity with more than 29 million downloads to date. Why? Think of GraphQL as a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data. 

GraphQL provides a complete and understandable description of the data in your API and gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more. Plus, it makes it easier to evolve APIs over time. GraphQL is also a robust technology and is being used in production at Facebook, GitHub, Pinterest, and Intuit.

GraphQL is an MIT-licensed project originally developed at Facebook in 2012 and open-sourced a few years later. It is rapidly increasing in popularity with more than 29 million downloads to date. Why? Think of GraphQL as a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data. 
GraphQL provides a complete and understandable description of the data in your API and gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more. Plus, it makes it easier to evolve APIs over time. GraphQL is also a robust technology and is being used in production at Facebook, GitHub, Pinterest, and Intuit. […]