A weekly newsletter of the best news, articles and projects about GraphQL

GraphQL offers two abstract types: interfaces and unions. Abstract types make APIs easier to use and create room for growth. This article by Abu Sakib presents several examples of what you can do with interfaces and unions and shows the capabilities they can provide for your own projects.

In this article, Adesina Abdrulrahman demonstrates how to build a text analytics API with GraphQL. The article shows how to use Levenshetein distance in a GraphQL API with the well-known NLTK library. Follow along with Adesina to learn more about how you can bring text analysis to GraphQL.

Ballerina is an open source programming language and platform that is geared towards writing software for the cloud. In Ballerina, the GraphQL object structure is modelled using services. In this article, Anjana Fernando demonstrates how to build a GraphQL application with Ballerina and what developers must be aware of while doing so. Follow along with Anjana to learn more about Ballerina and how to use it with GraphQL.