Kent C. Dodds

Aug 29, 2022

GraphQL - Diving Deep

This blog is a part of a series on GraphQL where we will dive deep into GraphQL and its ecosystem one piece at a time

The GraphQL specification was open sourced in 2015 by Facebook along with some basic implementations with a completely unique approach on how to structure, consume, transmit and process data and data graphs.

Today, the GraphQL spec and its implementations have been donated by Facebook to the GraphQL Foundation with open license for development and governance from the community and it has been great so far. And today, the GraphQL foundation comprises not just of companies like Facebook but other organizational members as well.

It was a moment when a lot of people were convinced by its power, utility and promise that the rest became history.

And today, there is a which tries to ensure that GraphQL and the ecosystem thrives over time, , a huge set of tools like and and these can just be few of the examples on how big the ecosystem has grown with a lot of languages, frameworks, tools supporting it as a first class citizen, so much so that even some of the are using it today as part of their stack.

GraphQL is at our heart at , the heart of everything we do and we wanted to share the love we have for GraphQL and the ecosystem and also the hard lessons we learnt along the way. And its not just GraphQL, we will be diving deep into a lot of Open Source Tools, Libraries, Frameworks, Software and Practices as we go along.