Company
Date Published
Author
Lidia Zuin
Word count
3949
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The document discusses various best practices for developing GraphQL APIs. It covers topics such as sharing design early, being minimalist with features, using consistent and symmetric naming conventions, being clear in schema definitions, and avoiding generic fields and runtime logic. The document also explores pagination strategies, including offset, cursor, and Relay connections, and how to implement global identification, nullability, abstract types, static queries, mutations, fine-grained vs coarse-grained mutations, error messages and notifications, security measures such as rate limiting, authentication and authorization, blocking introspection, persisted queries, and provides a conclusion summarizing the key takeaways.