---
title:      "GraphQL"
ring:       adopt
quadrant:   methods-and-patterns
tags:       [architecture]
---

For [Spring Boot](https://spring.io/projects/spring-boot/) based backends [DGS](https://netflix.github.io/dgs/) provides
a nice framework featuring:

- an annotation-based programming model for Spring
- a test framework for writing query tests as unit tests
- a [Gradle](https://gradle.org/) code generation plugin to create types from a GraphQL schema in Java or Kotlin