System Design · Middle · Question 70 of 75

What do GraphQL persisted queries give you?

✓Correct answer: Clients send a query id/hash instead of the full query text - smaller requests, GET caching and an allowlist of permitted queries
2Queries are stored in the browser
3Automatic pagination

Explanation

An allowlist also blocks arbitrary expensive queries from attackers.

Further reading

GraphQL: Persisted queries ↗

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