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Copilot Travel Joins the GraphQL Foundation

3/12/2024 by Jory Burson

We're thrilled to announce that Copilot Travel is now a General Member of the GraphQL Foundation. This partnership underscores our shared…

Supporting Contributors: The GraphQL Community Grant Program Refresh

3/7/2024 by Jory Burson and Benjie Gillam

The GraphQL Foundation is thrilled to announce significant updates to our Community Grant Program, now more streamlined and aligned with the…

GraphQL TSC Election Results

1/23/2024 by Jory Burson and Benjie Gillam

We are pleased to announce the results of this year's GraphQL Technical Steering Committee (TSC) elections. Every year, five of the ten TSC…

Announcing the GraphQL Foundation's Grant Awardees: Benefitting a GraphQL Ecosystem for All

1/17/2024 by Jory Burson and Benjie Gillam

We are thrilled to announce the recipients of grants from the GraphQL Foundation, which were selected from an application process initiated…

Announcing the Schedule for GraphQLConf

8/24/2023 by Jory Burson

The inaugural event for the GraphQL Foundation, GraphQLConf, delivers the best GraphQL content available. SAN FRANCISCO, August 24, 202…

Key Insights from the GraphQL EU Gathering

8/1/2023 by Jamie Barton

As the adage goes, unity is strength. The premier GraphQL EU "unconference", held in Berlin, is a testament to this belief. This phenomenal…

Technical Working Group videos now available on YouTube

7/6/2023 by Jory Burson

Have you been missing out on recent GraphQL Working Group meetings? Want to catch up on the latest conversations about Incremental Delivery…

Insights from The Guild's Q&A Session

6/20/2023 by Jory Burson

In the fast-paced world of software development, staying updated with the latest technologies and best practices is crucial. GraphQL, a…

Community Gardening, May - July 2022

2/3/2023 by Benjie Gillam

The GraphQL Foundation offers Community Grants to help incentivize key technical and community initiatives. As part of the grant, applicants…

GraphQL Custom Scalar specifications

1/14/2023 by Andreas Marek, Donna Zhou

Announcing contributed GraphQL custom scalar specifications We are very happy to announce the official home for contributed GraphQL custom…

GraphQL Foundation adopts graphql-http

11/7/2022 by GraphQL Foundation

GraphQL Foundation adopts graphql-http GraphQL is most commonly served over HTTP. However despite GraphQL being well specified, this HTTP…

GraphQL Foundation Monthly Newsletter June 2021

6/30/2021 by GraphQL Foundation

GraphQL Foundation Monthly Newsletter 2021 GraphQL has redefined how developers work with APIs and client-server interactions. And as the…

GraphQL Foundation Monthly Newsletter April 2021

4/30/2021 by GraphQL Foundation

GraphQL Foundation Monthly Newsletter April 2021 GraphQL has redefined how developers work with APIs and client-server interactions. And as…

GraphQL Foundation Monthly Newsletter March 2021

3/31/2021 by GraphQL Foundation

GraphQL has redefined how developers work with APIs and client-server interactions. And as the community works hard to foster the growth and…

GraphQL Foundation Monthly Newsletter February 2021

2/15/2021 by GraphQL Foundation

GraphQL has redefined how developers work with APIs and client-server interactions. And as the community works hard to foster the growth and…

Improving Latency with @defer and @stream Directives

12/8/2020 by Rob Richard, Liliana Matos

Rob Richard and Liliana Matos are front-end engineers at 1stDibs.com. They have been working with the GraphQL Working Group as champions of…

GraphQL Foundation Monthly Newsletter October 2020

11/12/2020 by GraphQL Foundation

GraphQL has redefined how developers work with APIs and client-server interactions. And as the community works hard to foster the growth and…

GraphQL Foundation Monthly Newsletter September 2020

10/15/2020 by GraphQL Foundation

GraphQL has redefined how developers work with APIs and client-server interactions. And as the community works hard to foster the growth and…

Google Season of Docs 2020 Participant: Carolyn Stransky

9/21/2020 by Carolyn Stransky

Carolyn Stransky is a frontend developer and journalist based in Berlin, Germany. She is selected for Google Season of Docs 2020 - GraphQL…

GraphQL Foundation Monthly Newsletter August 2020

9/11/2020 by GraphQL Foundation

GraphQL has redefined how developers work with APIs and client-server interactions. And as the community works hard to foster the growth and…

Google Summer of Code 2020 Participant: Naman

6/30/2020 by Naman Kumar

GSOC 2020 Naman Kumar is a Computer Science & Engineering student from New Delhi, India and a FullStack Engineer at ProductHunt. He is…

GraphQL joins Google Season of Docs

6/13/2020 by Obinna Ekwuno

GraphQL joins Google Season of Docs. Open source communities are one of the best ways to collaborate with a larger scale of developers, it…

Web-based GraphQL IDEs for the win: How & Why Playground & GraphiQL are joining forces

4/3/2020 by Rikki Schulte, Jason Kuhrt

Banner showing the Prisma and GraphQL Foundation logos with a :handshake: emoji between them GraphiQL's beginnings The initial public commit…

Announcing the 1st GraphQL Foundation Annual Report

4/2/2020 by GraphQL Foundation

The GraphQL Foundation recently turned 1 year old and is happy to announce its first annual report! The annual report details the…

Linux Foundation Training Announces a Free Online Course-Exploring GraphQL: A Query Language for APIs

10/31/2019 by GraphQL Foundation

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced enrollment is now open for a…

GraphQL Foundation Launches Interactive Landscape and Welcomes New Members from Open Source Summit Europe

10/28/2019 by GraphQL Foundation

The GraphQL Foundation, a neutral home for the GraphQL community to accelerate development of the surrounding ecosystem, today announced…

The GraphQL Foundation Announces Collaboration with the Joint Development Foundation to Drive Open Source and Open Standards

3/12/2019 by GraphQL Foundation

The GraphQL Foundation, a neutral home for the GraphQL community to accelerate development of the surrounding ecosystem, today announces it…

Channel Futures: GraphQL API Query Language Growing, Gets Own Support Foundation

11/12/2018 by Channel Futures

The growing popularity and use of the open-source GraphQL API language by software developers has inspired the creation of a GraphQL…

Datanami: Will GraphQL Become a Standard for the New Data Economy?

11/7/2018 by Datanami

Don’t look now but a new language called GraphQL is emerging that could radically simplify how developers use APIs to get data into…

SD Times: The Linux Foundation announces plans to form GraphQL foundation

11/7/2018 by SD Times

In an effort to grow and sustain the GraphQL ecosystem, The Linux Foundation has announced plans to launch a new open-source foundation for…

The Register: Facebook’s open-source license drama-zone GraphQL gets swanky digs in Linux mansion

11/7/2018 by The Register

GraphQL, a query language for APIs that was on the verge of being shunned last year over software license concerns, has bounced back and…

eWeek: GraphQL API Specification Moving Forward with Independent Foundation

11/6/2018 by eweek

The Linux Foundation announced on Nov. 6 that it is forming a new foundation to support the open source GraphQL specification, which enables…

InfoWorld: GraphQL gets its own foundation

11/6/2018 by InfoWorld

The Linux Foundation plans to host a foundation to support the GraphQL API project, with the intent of growing a neutral ecosystem for the…

The Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Form New Foundation to Support GraphQL

11/6/2018 by GraphQL Foundation

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, announces a broad coalition of industry…

ProgrammableWeb: GraphQL Moving to Neutral, Open-Source Foundation

11/8/2017 by ProgrammableWeb

GraphQL will now have its own foundation: the GraphQL Foundation. Although GraphQL was initially incubated by Facebook, GraphQL is now…

Leaving technical preview

9/14/2016 by Lee Byron

After over a year of being open sourced we're bringing GraphQL out of "technical preview" and relaunching graphql.org. For us at Facebook…

Wrapping a REST API in GraphQL

5/5/2016 by Steven Luscher

Time and time again I hear the same aspiration from front-end web and mobile developers: they're eager to reap the developer efficiency…

Mocking your server is easy with GraphQL

4/19/2016 by Jonas Helfer

Do you think mocking your backend is always a tedious task? If you do, reading this post might change your mind… Mocking is the practice of…

Subscriptions in GraphQL and Relay

10/16/2015 by Dan Schafer and Laney Kuenzel

When we announced and open-sourced GraphQL and Relay this year, we described how they can be used to perform reads with queries, and to…

GraphQL: A data query language

9/14/2015 by Lee Byron

When we built Facebook's mobile applications, we needed a data-fetching API powerful enough to describe all of Facebook, yet simple and easy…