Crafting Effective GraphQL Schemas
GraphQL provides its architects with the freedom to create their own schemas, and over the years, I have come across various methods of doing so. However, what I’m about to write here is very important – errors made at the beginning of schema design will haunt an entire team throughout a project.
Problems that can arise from a poorly designed GraphQL schema include unauthorized access to data, over-fetching, chaos and messiness, forced execution of a large number of queries instead of one, and unclear relationships between objects. Although GraphQL makes it easy to make changes, they will later require migrations of individual system components. Therefore, proper planning and dedicating time to editing the schema before starting implementation is essential.
In this chapter, we will focus on making sure the schemas we create are easy to use and understand. As we already know, GraphQL – when used as a source of truth –...
