GraphQL

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GraphQL
Original author(s)	Meta Platforms
Developer(s)	The GraphQL Foundation
Initial release	September 14, 2015 (2015-09-14)
Stable release	October 2021 (2021-10)[1]
Repository	github.com/graphql/graphql-spec
Written in	Implementations in Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Scala, others.
Website	graphql.org

GraphQL is a data query and manipulation language that allows specifying what data is to be retrieved ("declarative data fetching") or modified. A GraphQL server can process a client query using data from separate sources and present the results in a unified graph.^[2] The language is not tied to any specific database or storage engine. There are several open-source runtime engines for GraphQL.