The growing popularity and use of the open-source GraphQL API language by software developers has inspired the creation of a GraphQL Foundation to promote the technology and help it accelerate its development and footprint in future code.
The new organization, hosted by the non-profit Linux Foundation, is made up of a wide range of companies and users that are interested in growing and nurturing the GraphQL API project, which Facebook originally developed internally. After several years of development, Facebook released the code for GraphQL as an opn-source project.