A weekly newsletter of the best news, articles and projects about GraphQL

We decided to build Buffer's API with GraphQL, and today it's live and ready for you to start building with. Everything is driven by a strongly-typed GraphQL schema. Every field has a defined type and shape, so you always know what you're sending and what you'll get back. Your editor can autocomplete queries and catch mistakes before you run them. And you can ask for exactly the fields you need rather than parsing through payloads you didn't want.

GAPs is the new home for community-written specifications and extensions to GraphQL.

A slightly different resolver paradigm can have an outsized impact

Hot Chocolate and Fusion now ship an MCP adapter. Add two lines, author tools and prompts on disk, publish them with Nitro, and connect any MCP host to your GraphQL API.

Hive Console now supports schema version promotions and rollbacks through a new CLI command, enabling safer multi-environment workflows, fast production rollbacks, and improved visibility into subgraph-level changes.

Hot Chocolate 16 brings a new type system, better scalar contracts, safer defaults, improved batching, semantic introspection, and a new GraphQL error mode.

Discover Apollo Client 4.2's type-safe default options and event-based refetching. Eliminate type mismatches and automatically refetch on window focus.

Hive Router can now load the supergraph schema and the persisted documents manifest directly from Amazon S3 or any S3-compatible service (Cloudflare R2, MinIO, LocalStack, and more).

Unified API key management for GraphQL teams. Create, rotate, and revoke SCIM, subgraph, and operator keys in GraphOS Studio without disrupting workflows.

Akshat Sharma's experience representing GraphQL at API Days Singapore 2026, insights from GraphQL Day at FOST, and real-world lessons from the API community.