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GraphQL in 2025: Pros & Cons, Public APIs, and Use Cases

Reading Time: 3 minutes GraphQL, a query language for APIs developed by Facebook in 2012 and publicly released in 2015, is now a decade old! Unlike traditional REST APIs, which expose multiple endpoints for various resources, GraphQL consolidates everything into a single endpoint, allowing clients to request exactly the data they need.  Major companies like Facebook (the creator), GitHub, …