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Introduction to GraphQL

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GraphQL Terminology: Queries, Types, and Fields

1:03 with Isaac Lee Morris

In this video, we’ll go over some of the basic terminology you’ll see when working with GraphQL.

New Terms:

  • Query - Queries specify which endpoints we want to call, how we want the response to look
  • Fields - Properties that comprise the shape of a response
  • Type - A collection of fields that make up a specific queryable object.

Further Reading:

GraphQL Documentation: Fields

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    terms you encounter when using GraphQL, queries, type, and fields. 0:00
    Queries are what we write to specify the data we want to fetch from a GraphQL 0:01
    server and how we want that data to look. 0:05
    In the last video, we used a query to fetch information about Gone With the Wind 0:09
    from the movie by ID endpoint on our GraphQL server. 0:14
    Fields are the properties that make up the shape of our objects. 0:18
    They are the core of GraphQL. 0:22
    Using fields, we can include or exclude properties of an object to craft 0:24
    a response that is tailored precisely to the context we wanna use it in. 0:29

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