GraphQL is a query language for APIs that has become increasingly popular among developers working on large-scale web applications. Created by Facebook engineers in 2015, it’s positioned as a more robust alternative to RESTful APIs.

When compared to REST APIs, GraphQL has a few key differences. With RESTful APIs, you have to define how you're going to make requests to each individual endpoint. You have a list of resources and verbs (methods) available to select from in order to retrieve or manipulate data from the server, and all transactions include all fields.

On the other hand, with a GraphQL API, you can define your queries in one place and the server takes care of making the requests for you. You have a query language that allows you to specify precisely what data fields you want to interact with.

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