In 2015, GraphQL went open source. Mark Olson, senior communications manager at Trulia, explained that GraphQL is an alternative to REST API.

For a long time, REST was the de facto way to design APIs. Then in 2015, Facebook open-sourced GraphQL and marketed it as a hot new alternative to REST.

With REST, you send a request to a request-specific URL and receive the results in whatever format makes sense for the application. Meta’s web API system, GraphQL, is a different kind of API.

The open-source GraphQL specification was originally developed by Facebook as an alternative to REST, providing organizations with a new way to enable more complex and dynamic data-driven APIs.

WSO2 GraphQL is the better REST GraphQL, introduced by Facebook in 2012 and publicly released in 2015, is an application-layer protocol designed to enhance RESTful API calls.

REST APIs have become the workhorse of modern, API-driven application development. By adding this new conversion utility, IT organizations do not have to create and manage a separate set of APIs.

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