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This article by J Simpson compiles some of the best GraphQL documentation generators and tools for your API development. He lists out the benefits and disadvantages from using static documentation generators like GraphQL Docs to documentation explorers like GraphiQL. Optimize and automate your workflow with the tools Simpson discusses throughout the article.

This in-depth research paper by engineers from the Federal University of Minas Gerais assesses the differences in migrating API clients and utilizing GraphQL instead of standard REST-based APIs. After migration to GraphQL, the results demonstrated a 94% reduction in terms of fields and bytes. Read more about the community’s response and commentary towards some controversial claims in the hacker news discussion.

This tutorial is packed with resources from Eve Porcello's and Alex Bank's GraphQL Workshop on building a GraphQL Schema to mock a web application. The article details the process of creating a mock schema of bluebottlecoffee.com using Apollo and faker.js. It includes how to implement interfaces, write mock resolvers, and get a GraphQL server set up.