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

Tickets for GraphQLConf 2026 are live. May 6–7, back at Meta's Menlo Park campus.

Share how your team adopts, operates, and scales GraphQL Federation—including AI and LLM workloads—in the vendor-neutral State of Federation 2026 survey.

Seven GraphQL conferences just landed on confs.tech. Time to fight your calendar and travel budget.

In a discussion on Reddit's r/graphql community, users weigh in on whether GraphQL remains a viable choice for building new applications. Some contributors highlight the continued relevance of GraphQL's strengths, such as flexibility and ease of use, while others express concerns about its performance and scalability issues. The conversation also touches on the evolving landscape of API design and the emergence of alternative technologies. As the community shares their experiences and insights, it becomes clear that GraphQL remains a popular choice for many developers, but one that requires careful consideration of its trade-offs.

Chris Biscardi covers the benefits of GraphQL over REST in his talk at GopherCon UK. He offers an introduction to GraphQL overall and highlights some tools and tips to working with GraphQL in the Go Ecosystem.

Github has just released a fuller Issue API that uses GraphQL. You can see all of the available new objects in their docs and they are seeking feedback on the interactions. Let them know what you think!

This talk from NebraskaJS by Dustin Schau is aimed to get you up to speed with GraphQL. First touching on how current REST based applications are built, Dustin then goes deep into GraphQL fundamentals and even shows off how you can integrate GraphQL in your client applications.

This post from Eve Porcello of Moon Highway goes over an overview of their new book Learning GraphQL. Alex Banks and Eve have spent countless hours researching, working with, and writing about GraphQL to ensure that students and readers grasp GraphQL fundamentals. If people have a great experience learning, they’ll get excited about working with GraphQL. Check out their book now!

In this episode of ngAir, Bonnie Brennan walks through the ins and outs of GraphQL. From explaining the initial concepts of GraphQL she moves on to breaking down GraphQL clients, diving straight into Angular Apollo. Lastly, stick to the end to hear about some awesome tools to help your engineering workflow.

This talk from React Rally by Eve Porcello is one of the most entertaining and informational talks on GraphQL we've ever seen! Check out this amazing speaker as she explains what every React developer needs to know in 3 components.

The GraphQL Glossary is a handy cheat sheet to help provide an accessible reference for learning GraphQL. The FAQ is for engineers who need answers to problems that you come across when building GraphQL applications. It’s a living guide and will constantly be updated as more product teams experience GraphQL.

In this episode of JS Party, John Resig explains the evolution of front-end architecture at Khan Academy. He talks a lot about the growth of front-end systems at Khan Academy from REST to GraphQL. Jerod and Suz talk with John about his experiences with GraphQL at Khan Academy, some of the mistakes and successes using GraphQL, his feelings on jQuery, and community Q&A.

Watch as Sara Vieira lives codes a Prisma GraphQL backend and connects it to a React JS frontend. This talk was held at the JAMStack Portugal meetup.

In this talk Annyce Davis discusses the basics of GraphQL. She explains that instead of relying on a predetermined output structure from your API, you can “query” it and choose only the fields that are necessary. In this talk at Kotliners 2018, she teaches what GraphQL is all about and how you can take advantage of it in your applications.

GraphQL Europe 2018 had brilliant talks from top companies like Facebook, GitHub, Twitter, Docker, Shopify, Prisma & more. You can now watch all of them on the Prisma Youtube channel. In case you couldn’t make it in person or want to refresh your memory, you can now watch all the amazing talks from the conference!

GraphQL Finland is on October 18-19, 2018 in Helsinki, Finland. This event consists of a workshop day and a day of talks exploring GraphQL in depth. GraphQL Finland is organized by the same team that brought you React Finland. Register now to listen to talks from Dan Schafer, Mikhail Novikov, Sara Vieira and much more!

In this talk, Mikhail Nivikov (author of major pieces of the graphql-tools library) gives an overview of caching strategies and implementation details of GraphQL clients and discusses the examples of Apollo Client and Relay.

This was probably the most popular tweet ever to concisely explain what GraphQL is. Sara Vieira describes the differences between REST and GraphQL by the example of burgers ?