--- title: GraphQL Intro 101 (part 1) | daily.dev description: GraphQL is a modern API standard that offers an efficient, powerful, and flexible alternative to traditional REST APIs. It started at Facebook as a solution... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/graphql-intro-101-part-1--1neonyz2c twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: GraphQL Intro 101 (part 1) | daily.dev og:description: GraphQL is a modern API standard that offers an efficient, powerful, and flexible alternative to traditional REST APIs. It started at Facebook as a solution... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/graphql-intro-101-part-1--1neonyz2c og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/1NeoNyZ2C.png og:image:alt: GraphQL Intro 101 (part 1) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # GraphQL Intro 101 (part 1) **[Substack](https://daily.dev/sources/substack)** · 4 min read · 27 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary GraphQL is a modern API standard that offers an efficient, powerful, and flexible alternative to traditional REST APIs. It started at Facebook as a solution for optimizing data loading for mobile applications and addressing the limitations of REST. There are pros such as efficient data loading and strong typing, but also cons like complexity and potential performance issues. Overall, GraphQL has found its place in the ecosystem and has an exciting future ahead. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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