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Read how Differential could use GraphQL as an incredible tool for rapid and effective application development. Their experiences highlight the benefits of GraphQL's elegant solution to fetch nested data, compared to traditional approaches like REST. We agree with the title - GraphQL is truely the future of API development.

Watch how Andrew of Stem presents Join Monster, a JavaScript execution layer from GraphQL to SQL. Using Join Monster you can batch data-fetching between the API and the database by dynamically translating GraphQL to SQL for efficient data retrieval, all in a single batch before resolution. It comes with support for many-to-many releations, offset- or cursor-based pagination and works nicely with graphql-relay.

Try out GraphQL with @graphcool and @Netlify. While Graphcool provides you with a flexible backend combining GraphQL+ AWS Lambda, Netlify allows you to deploy and automate modern web projects with the click of a button. If you want to get started with GraphQL, follow the video guide to build an Instagram clone with React and Relay and deploy it to Netlify. This is a whole new developer experience, and we love it!