GraphQL

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GraphQL

Original author(s)	Meta Platforms
Developer(s)	Open source
Initial release	September 14, 2015 (2015-09-14)
Stable release	October 2021 (2021-10)[1]
Repository	github.com/graphql/graphql-spec
Written in	Implementations in Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Scala, others.
Website	graphql.org

GraphQL is a data query and manipulation language for APIs that allows a client to specify what data it needs ("declarative data fetching"). A GraphQL server can fetch data from separate sources for a single client query and present the results in a unified graph,^[2] so it is not tied to any specific database or storage engine.

The associated GraphQL runtime engine is open-source.