Tailcall · GraphQL Specification

Tailcall GraphQL API

Tailcall is a high-performance GraphQL gateway and runtime built in Rust. It does not expose a fixed hosted GraphQL API endpoint — instead, it is a self-hosted runtime that developers configure and deploy themselves. The runtime generates a unified GraphQL schema at startup by composing multiple upstream REST, gRPC, and GraphQL APIs using declarative SDL files annotated with custom directives.

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Overview

Tailcall GraphQL API is a GraphQL API specification published by Tailcall on the APIs.io network.

Tailcall is a high-performance GraphQL gateway and runtime built in Rust. It does not expose a fixed hosted GraphQL API endpoint — instead, it is a self-hosted runtime that developers configure and deploy themselves. The runtime generates a unified GraphQL schema at startup by composing multiple upstream REST, gRPC, and GraphQL APIs using declarative SDL files annotated with custom directives.

The GraphQL endpoint is available at http://<host>:<port>/graphql. documentation is published at https://tailcall.run/docs/.

The specification includes 6 reference links.

Tagged areas include API Gateway, GraphQL Runtime, REST, gRPC, and Rust.

Endpoint

`http://:/graphql`

References

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