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title: "InfoWorld: GraphQL gets its own foundation"
tags: [in-the-news]
date: 2018-11-06
byline: InfoWorld
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The Linux Foundation plans to host a foundation to support the GraphQL API project, with the intent of growing a neutral ecosystem for the technology.

GraphQL is a specification for building APIs. It is intended to make cross-platform and mobile development simpler. Providing an alternative to REST, GraphQL lets developers use a strongly typed query language to define requests and responses, letting an application specify what it needs from an API. GraphQL enables access to multiple data sources through a single request.

[Read more](https://infoworld.com/article/3318255/apis/graphql-gets-its-own-foundation.html)