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In order to provide an awesome experience for your customers, your frontends need to load data fast. We believe GraphQL is a fantastic choice for building data APIs for your apps, but it can be tricky to design it properly. We can help you avoid some common GraphQL pitfalls so your API is fast and easy to maintain. But if GraphQL isn’t the right choice for your project, we can help you build REST APIs that serve your frontends perfectly.
Contact usWeb and mobile apps often need to fetch data from a backend server API. This data fetching is often the biggest performance bottleneck for most apps. For several years, and still today, these APIs were built with the RESTful paradigm. That works OK, but it has some big problems that compound as apps grow: over-fetching and under-fetching.
RESTful endpoints are often rigid - they provide a fixed, predefined data structures. This data structure is often simultaneously contains data the frontend doesn’t want while also leaving out data the frontend does need. Since the frontend doesn’t get everything it needs, it has to make more API calls to fetch all the data it needs, while also getting a bunch of stuff it doesn’t need. This simultaneous over-fetching and under-fetching results in slower performance and lower customer satisfaction. We think GraphQL offers an elegant solution to this problem.
GraphQL is not without its share of problems, however. As with any technology, there are landmines to avoid when implementing a GraphQL API. We have extensive experience designing, building, and using GraphQL APIs. We can help you build a GraphQL API that can optimize data fetching for your frontend applications, drastically boosting performance and user satisfaction.