IDG Contributor Network: GraphQL: The API technology to watch in 2018

Let’s say you’re a developer working for a retailer who’s built out a catalog of 250 commerce-related APIs, exposing every granular piece of data (product, category, price, inventory, etc) and functionality (add to cart, calculate discounts, reserve inventory, etc). Say you’re re-designing your website and need to build a new product detail page. Today’s product detail pages need to access data (products, related products, inventory, pricing, etc) from dozens or ev