Backend
GraphQL Development
For clients that genuinely need to shape their own queries.
GraphQL solves a specific problem well: many clients, divergent data needs, and a backend team tired of shipping an endpoint per screen. The client asks for exactly the fields it wants and receives exactly those, which removes both over-fetching and the endpoint sprawl that comes with serving several front-ends.
What it introduces is a different set of concerns — query cost, N+1 resolution, caching that no longer works at the HTTP layer, and authorisation that has to be enforced per field rather than per route.
Why we use it
We use GraphQL where the problem it solves is genuinely present: a product with web, mobile and partner clients whose data needs diverge, or a front-end team that would otherwise be blocked waiting for endpoints.
We advise against it when there is one client. A single front-end with a REST API is simpler to cache, simpler to debug, and simpler to hand to the next team — and choosing GraphQL there means paying its costs to solve a problem you do not have.
Planning a GraphQL project?
We will tell you honestly whether it is the right choice for what you are building.