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

Hasura's GraphQL engine is built with Haskell, a language choice some may consider unintuitive. In this article, Lyndon Maydwell recounts how Hasura recently implemented a new feature which maps REST interfaces to GraphQL queries and how Haskell was advantageous in doing so. Read on to find out more about Hasura's new feature and how their engineering team approached it.

Graphman is a new macOS and iOS app that allows developers to prototype requests and explore GraphQL APIs. In this post, Tim Roesner illustrates how to use Graphman in both settings. He details how to use GraphQL unions, nested queries, variables and more. Follow along with Tim to find out more about Graphman and how you can use it today.

Managing consistent and backwards-compatible APIs for web and mobile app frontends is always a complex task in the long-term. Zalando uses GraphQL to solve some of the most common problems of frontend data requirements while gaining speed of delivery in a large and quickly growing organization. In this article, Aditya Pratap Singh talks about GraphQL as Unified-Backend-For-Frontend (UBFF) application. It's the first in a series of posts about problems Zalando solved with GraphQL.