A Guide to the Most Popular Types of APIs: REST, SOAP, GraphQL, and gRPC

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Inter-process communication GraphQL

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  • gRPC

    The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)

    • gRPC Remote Procedure Call (gRPC) is a cross-platform, open-source, contract-based communication protocol that streamlines and controls interservice communication by providing a set of functions to external clients.

  • foundation

    GraphQL Foundation Charter and Legal Documents (by graphql)

    • When Facebook created GraphQL, they required a robust data-fetching API that could perform all of Facebook's tasks while being straightforward and easy to learn and use by their product developers. GraphQL was created in order to rebuild Facebook's native mobile apps.

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