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So you've gotten your
first taste of GraphQL.

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Now we're going to dive in and understand
the different parts that make up a query.

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In this video, we'll briefly go over each
part before explaining them in more detail

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in the videos that follow.

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At its most basic,
a query is composed of three parts,

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the query declaration,
the endpoint, and the fields.

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The query declaration tells GraphQL that
we'll only be retrieving information and

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not making any changes.

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In the curly braces following
the query declaration,

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we specify which endpoint or
endpoints we'd like to call.

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In this case, we're calling
the topMoviebyRevenue endpoint,

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which will return the top earning
movie we have in our backend.

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In the curly braces
following the endpoint name,

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we specify the fields we want returned for
that endpoint.

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This is how we tell GraphQL to include or

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exclude certain properties
from our response.

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So that's the basic anatomy of a query.

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In the next video,

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you'll learn how to tell GraphQL which
fields you want included in your response.