Where in the HypeCycle is GraphQL in 2021? Analyzing public data from Google Trends, StackOverflow, GitHub and HackerNews

Is the GraphQL hype over? Was it just a trend? If you’re a regular on reddit/r/graphql you might have noticed the discussion about GraphQL and Google Trends recently.

If you look at a single graph from Google Trends, you might be thinking that GraphQL is indeed through the hype cycle and interest is declining. But is that really the case? Is the decline of the Google Trends graph indicating the end of the GraphQL hype or is it just a correction due to other factors?

To answer the question, we’ll look at publicly available data from StackOverflow, GitHub and HackerNews.

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