When working with APIs, developers have several choices as far as protocols and specifications are concerned. You can use SOAP, REST, or GraphQL – three of the most popular approaches to build APIs. GraphQL is the newest of these three and promises to provide an even more flexible way of working with data.
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What is Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)?What is Representational State Transfer (REST)?What is GraphQL?When Should You Use SOAP, REST, or GraphQL?Final Thoughts on SOAP, REST, and GraphQLSort: