What is GraphQL?

If you are a frontend web developer you have probably heard of GraphQL or maybe you have even used it, but what is it? GraphQL is a query language for APIs that allows you to write queries that define the data you receive. No more emailing the backend team to update an endpoint for your application. The client developer defines the data returned in the request.

Configuration System in Drupal 8 is a new suite of tools that allow us to take config and make it exportable. In this post, I am going to outline three items you need to know to begin working with the configuration system.

Terminology

Config vs Content 

It is important to note that not all data in Drupal are created equally.  There is a concept of configuration and content.  I like this distinction made in Drupal’s config API docs: