Not just a database; any data source. The piece that got me hooked on GraphQL (prior to implementing servers with it, and now I really like GraphQL—but it’s no

Not just a database; any data source. The piece that got me hooked on GraphQL (prior to implementing servers with it, and now I really like GraphQL—but it’s not a silver bullet in any way) was a podcast where one of the creators of GraphQL at FB made it clear that, from the server side, every field in GraphQL is a function, not a field on a record. It means that, although the FE is specifying the shape of the data it wants, the BE can determine whether to return the data or not. Also, errors are additive and may be returned in parallel to the requested data fields.