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Issue 405• Feb 21, 2026

Articles

Get all the reactions to your GitHub content using GraphQL(opens in new tab)

GitHub won't admit it's a social media platform and notify you when someone ❤️'s your issue. Terence Eden dove into GitHub's API to pull reactions across issues, PRs, and comments. His verdict: the Necronomicon was probably written in GraphQL.

Apollo Skills: Teaching AI Agents How to Use Apollo and GraphQL(opens in new tab)

Apollo Skills cover Apollo Client & Server, Connectors, schema design, and operations. Open source at github.com/apollographql/skills

Agoda’s API Agent Converts Any API to MCP with Zero Code and Deployments(opens in new tab)

Leela Kumili, Lead Software Engineer at Starbucks, writes for InfoQ about Agoda's API Agent: a single MCP server that connects to any internal REST or GraphQL API with no code, no deployments. It consolidates multi-API overhead, answers AI-assisted queries, and post-processes results with in-memory SQL for safe, scalable data access.

GraphQL Introspection Bypass via Field Suggestions(opens in new tab)

Even with introspection disabled, GraphQL APIs leak schema information through error messages. GraphQL Armor blocks field suggestions by default; for everything else, customize your error formatter to strip schema details.

Tools & Open Source

Biome v2.4 adds GraphQL linting & formatting in JavaScript(opens in new tab)

Apart from the embedded GraphQL & CSS linting, the new Biome release includes Vue/Svelte/Astro improvements, editor inline config, rule profiler and the configuration discovery.

gqlr v0.1.0 is now on CRAN(opens in new tab)

A GraphQL Implementation in R was released in v0.1.0 with GraphiQL interactive IDE support, verbose error messages for easier debugging, improved mutation execution validation, and removed pryr dependency.

Videos

HuseyinCodes: You Don't Have to Like It, But You Should Know It (Golang)(opens in new tab)

HuseyinCodes builds a Book Library API with GQLGen in Go, walking through queries, mutations, and subscriptions in a single session. The tutorial stays grounded: GraphQL serves complex data relationships and self-documenting APIs, not as a wholesale replacement for REST or gRPC. Worth watching if you use Go and want a clear-eyed, hands-on introduction to GQLGen.

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