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Introduction to GraphQL

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Anatomy of a Query

1:14 with Isaac Lee Morris

In this video, we will go over the different parts that make up a GraphQL query, before diving into each one in more detail in the videos that follow.

So you've gotten your first taste of GraphQL. 0:05
Now we're going to dive in and understand the different parts that make up a query. 0:07
In this video, we'll briefly go over each part before explaining them in more detail 0:12
in the videos that follow. 0:17
At its most basic, a query is composed of three parts, 0:19
the query declaration, the endpoint, and the fields. 0:23
The query declaration tells GraphQL that we'll only be retrieving information and 0:27
not making any changes. 0:32
In the curly braces following the query declaration, 0:35
we specify which endpoint or endpoints we'd like to call. 0:38
In this case, we're calling the topMoviebyRevenue endpoint, 0:43
which will return the top earning movie we have in our backend. 0:47
In the curly braces following the endpoint name, 0:51
we specify the fields we want returned for that endpoint. 0:54
This is how we tell GraphQL to include or 0:58
exclude certain properties from our response. 1:01
So that's the basic anatomy of a query. 1:05
In the next video, 1:07
you'll learn how to tell GraphQL which fields you want included in your response. 1:09