Everything about GraphQL

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: GraphQLA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Tool report: EvoMaster—black and white box search-based fuzzing for REST, GraphQL and RPC APIsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Learning GraphQLThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Knowledge Graph and Deep Learning-based Text-to-GraphQL Model for Intelligent Medical Consultation ChatbotCited 55 times
5. Go sideways: Apache HiveA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Apache SparkA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Knowledge Graph and Deep Learning-based Text-to-GraphQL Model for Intelligent Medical Consultation Chatbot

  Pin Ni, Ramin Okhrati, Steven Guan · 2022 · Information Systems Frontiers · 55 citations

• GraphQL: A Systematic Mapping Study

  Antonio Quiña-Mera, Pablo Fernandez, José María García · 2023 · ACM Computing Surveys · 48 citations

• A GraphQL approach to Healthcare Information Exchange with HL7 FHIR

  Suresh Kumar Mukhiya, Fazle Rabbi, Violet Ka I Pun · 2019 · Procedia Computer Science · 32 citations

• Performance evaluation of microservices communication with REST, GraphQL, and gRPC

  Muhammad Niswar, Reza Arisandy Safruddin, Anugrayani Bustamin · 2024 · International Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications · 31 citations

• Evaluating GraphQL and REST API Services Performance in a Massive and Intensive Accessible Information System

  Armin Lawi, Benny L. E. Panggabean, Takaichi Yoshida · 2021 · Computers · 29 citations

• otargen : GraphQL-based R package for tidy data accessing and processing from Open Targets Genetics

  Amir Feizi, Kamalika Ray · 2023 · Bioinformatics · 24 citations

• An HL7 FHIR and GraphQL approach for interoperability between heterogeneous Electronic Health Record systems

  Suresh Kumar Mukhiya, Yngve Lamo · 2021 · Health Informatics Journal · 21 citations

• Random Testing and Evolutionary Testing for Fuzzing GraphQL APIs

  Asma Belhadi, Man Zhang, Andrea Arcuri · 2024 · ACM Transactions on the Web · 20 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Tool report: EvoMaster—black and white box search-based fuzzing for REST, GraphQL and RPC APIs

  Andrea Arcuri, Man Zhang, Susruthan Seran · 2024 · Automated Software Engineering · 16 citations

• Comparison of REST and GraphQL Interfaces for OPC UA

  Riku Ala-Laurinaho, Joel Mattila, Juuso Autiosalo · 2022 · Computers · 12 citations

• Unlocking Healthcare Data Potential: A Comprehensive Integration Approach with GraphQL, openEHR, Redis, and Pervasive Business Intelligence

  Regina Sousa, Vasco Abelha, Hugo Peixoto · 2024 · Technologies · 7 citations

• Ontology-based GraphQL server generation for data access and data integration

  Huanyu Li, Olaf Hartig, Rickard Armiento · 2024 · Semantic Web: – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability · 7 citations

• Correction to: Knowledge Graph and Deep Learning-based Text-to-GraphQL Model for Intelligent Medical Consultation Chatbot

  Pin Ni, Ramin Okhrati, Steven Guan · 2022 · Information Systems Frontiers · 4 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Learning GraphQLEve Porcello, Alex Banks · 2018
• Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQl and ReactSebastian Grebe · 2021
• 📕GraphQL in ActionSamer Buna · 2020
• 📕Get Going with GraphQLMandi Wise · 2021
• 📕Advanced GraphQL with Apollo and ReactMandi Wise · 2020
• 📕Scalable Application Development with NestJSPacifique Linjanja · 2025
• 📕Apps and Services with .NET 7Mark J. Price · 2022
• Full-Stack React, TypeScript, and NodeDavid Choi · 2020

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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