GraphQL: A Success Story for PayPal Checkout

From graphql.orgAt PayPal, we recently introduced GraphQL to our technology stack. If you haven’t heard of GraphQL, it’s a wildly popular alternative to REST APIs that is currently taking the developer world by storm! At PayPal, GraphQL has been a complete game changer to the way we think about data, fetch data and build applications. This blog post takes a close look at PayPal Checkout and explai

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“PayPal’s Checkout products spread across many web and mobile apps, supporting millions of users across ~200 countries and has hundreds of experiments running at any time. These apps leverage the same suite of REST APIs to fetch data needed for building UI.”

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PayPal が GraphQL を導入した件

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“When we took a closer look, we found that UI developers were spending less than 1/3 of their time actually building UI. The rest of that time spent was figuring out where and how to fetch data, filtering/mapping over that data and orchestrating many API calls.”

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Performance, Flexibility, and Development productivity

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PayPal CheckoutでのGraphQLについて。 もともとREST APIで作られていて、ラウンドトリップを減らすためのオーケストレーション層にも課題を持っていた。 3人6週間でGraphQLに移行し、1/3の時間でUIを作れるようになったという話