Since Facebook presented GraphQL in 2012, it has taken over the web like a hurricane. Huge companies started to adopt it, while small and medium companies have seen the potential of this query-based API.
It looks strange at first, but as you start to read and experience more of it, you don't want to use REST APIs anymore. The simplicity and data fetching capabilities made the lives of frontend developers easier, because they can fetch only what they want, and are not tied to an endpoint that delivers only a piece of single information.
This is the beginning of a long recipe, where all the recipes are bound to form a complete chat app, but you can learn about GraphQL and AWS Amplify in the recipes without needing to code the whole chapter.
In this chapter, we will learn more about the AWS Amplify environment and...
