An Introduction to GraphQL

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GraphQL is an application-layer query schema (Facebook origin, spec stable since 2018) where the request shape defines the JSON response shape and the schema is strongly typed and self-documenting. Real deployments hit two surprises: naive field resolvers cause massive fan‑out to databases and services (fix with data loader batching) and clients can craft deeply nested or huge requests (examples show single requests >50 KB) so teams use query complexity limits and persisted queries (Apollo, Relay) plus client-side caching and tooling like gqlgen, Prisma/Hasura.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 12:24Use Cases
3. 13:34Dumb Resolvers
4. 15:34Query Complexity
5. 18:23Caching
6. 20:56Some interesting things to look into

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