Video: GraphQL in 2023 - Still Relevant?

The video discusses the relevance of GraphQL in 2023, highlighting its continued importance in the tech ecosystem. GraphQL Federation is a key feature, allowing developers to combine multiple graphs into a super graph, simplifying data integration and reducing team coordination needs. This super graph also supports easier schema evolution, akin to Git with a schema registry. The video emphasizes GraphQL's unique advantages like normalized caching, which enhances data integrity and reduces redundancy. It also covers the defer directive, enabling incremental data fetching to improve performance. Developers benefit from GraphQL's ability to fetch only necessary data from a single endpoint, avoiding overfetching issues common with REST. The video also touches on the language-agnostic nature of GraphQL, which enhances frontend and backend integration. The potential of GraphQL to reduce the need for backend-for-frontend architectures is also explored. Tools like Wegger UI and tRPC are mentioned for making schema exploration and type safety easier. The video ultimately argues that GraphQL remains a relevant and valuable tool for developers in 2023.

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