You're thinking of code-first ORMs (to use the EF terminology), where you write classes and the tool maps them to tables and queries. These GraphQL tools, howe

You're thinking of code-first ORMs (to use the EF terminology), where you write classes and the tool maps them to tables and queries. These GraphQL tools, however, act a lot like a database-first ORM, where you provide a database and the tool generates code in a different paradigm (OO for ORMs, Graph QL here). It is indeed the opposite direction, but ORMs can work that way too.