GraphQL Best Practices

GraphQL Best Practices

Learn GraphQL best practices in this week’s RapidAPI Comic!

GraphQL Best Practices

1. Use HTTP

GraphQL is typically served over HTTP and a single endpoint. So HTTP is recommended to support GraphQL capabilities.

GraphQL Best Practices

2. Pagination

Pagination optimizes performance. GraphQL has various API design possibilities for pagination.

GraphQL Best Practices

3. JSON and GZIP

GraphQL services typically use JSON, which can be compressed by enabling GZip. JSON is also familiar to API developers, easy to read, and debug.

GraphQL Best Practices

4. No versioning

The GraphQL Schema supports the continuous evolution of APIs. So although you can version them, it's not recommended.

GraphQL Best Practices

5. Nullability

GraphQL fields can be nullable or non-nullable, but all fields are nullable by default. Selecting certain fields to be non-nullable guarantees the client that those requested fields will not return null.