Why GraphQL?

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GitHub’s GraphQL API shows that clients request exact shapes and get matching JSON, enabling a client-centric workflow rather than fetching whole resources; the browser IDE GraphiQL IDE provides live autocomplete, precise error locations and mouseover type info so queries validate as you write; schema metadata generates documentation and a changelog via Ruby tooling, supports deprecations built-in with removal dates (example: a members field marked deprecated), and queries reveal concrete results like 10,000 closed issues for a repo.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:50Why GraphQL
3. 4:53GraphQL
4. 7:23Type
5. 9:52Deprecation

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