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GraphQL in TYPO3 – Glossary

TYPO3 GraphQL

GraphQL is a way to get data from a server to your website. It was made by Facebook to make data fetching easier and faster. Instead of asking for a lot of data and then picking what you need, GraphQL lets you ask for exactly what you want.

How Does TYPO3 Use GraphQL?

TYPO3, a popular content management system, now supports GraphQL. This means you can use GraphQL to fetch content from your TYPO3 site. It makes your site faster and more efficient.

Benefits of Using GraphQL with TYPO3

  1. Efficiency: Get only the data you need. This makes your site faster.
  2. Flexibility: Ask for specific data, making it easier to build custom features.
  3. Easy to Use: Simple queries make it easy for developers to get started.

Using GraphQL with TYPO3 can greatly improve your site's performance. It's efficient, flexible, and easy to use.

GraphQL is a query language for interfaces with which applications request exactly the data they need. In contrast to classic REST interfaces with fixed responses, the client determines which fields are delivered. This saves data volume and requests.

In TYPO3 GraphQL can be provided through extensions to make content available to external applications. Typical use cases are headless architectures in which a separate frontend, for example with React or Vue, retrieves content from TYPO3 and displays it itself.

The structure follows a schema that describes types and relations. A client sends a query, for example for page title, texts and images, and receives exactly this structure back. This allows mobile apps, single-page applications and digital displays to be supplied efficiently.

Consider security and performance. Restrict queries to permitted fields, limit depth and complexity and use caching so that servers are not overloaded. Authentication protects non-public content.

For simple websites GraphQL is not mandatory. Check whether classic templates are sufficient or whether you really serve several channels. The effort for schema, tests and documentation should be in a sensible relation to the benefit.

Editors continue to work in the familiar backend. It is important that preview and approvals also work in the separate frontend.

Good documentation of the schema makes developers’ work easier.

We advise you on headless concepts and connect TYPO3 to your applications via modern interfaces.

This way you use content across channels.

In short: TYPO3 GraphQL for faster content retrieval.