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GraphQL: A Paradigm Shift in Thinking About Your Data
There's no specific set of queries that GraphQL outlines. That's up to your backend to implement those those different arguments, as well as things like filtering and sorting. And I was a little bit bummed initially to learn that because I was like, well, it's not really a query language if you can't sort your item. But then after I figured out, oh, the limit or a sort is just an argument that you're passing on through to the API and the API is going to deal with it. Then it made a little bit more sense to me thatGraphQL doesn't really care. It's just accepting those as arguments. The API is what needs to know how
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