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+title: GraphQL Foundation adopts graphql-http
+tags: ["newsletter"]
+layout: blog
+date: 2022-11-07
+byline: GraphQL Foundation
+permalink: /blog/2022-11-07-graphql-foundation-graphql-http
+---
+
+# GraphQL Foundation adopts graphql-http
+
+GraphQL is most commonly served over HTTP. However despite GraphQL being well
+specified, this HTTP transport is not. To correct for this, the GraphQL working
+group has been working on the [GraphQL over HTTP](https://graphql.github.io/graphql-over-http/draft/)
+specification.
+
+Alongside a specification, we prefer a true implementation to have as a
+reference. This ensures the ideas we specify can be implemented well, and that
+as edge-cases arise in software we can ensure their solutions are reflected in
+the specification as well.
+
+For GraphQL over HTTP, this has nominally been [express-graphql](https://github.com/graphql/express-graphql).
+This package makes it easy to create a GraphQL serving endpoint from an express
+server. However as the Node community has grown over the years, alternatives to
+express have emerged and there is no longer one framework to align to. Also, as
+our maintenance bandwidth has focused on other projects, express-graphql has
+fallen behind.
+
+Luckily, thanks to the focused efforts of [Denis Badurina](https://github.com/enisdenjo),
+we have an alternative in [graphql-http](https://github.com/graphql/graphql-http).
+Denis has been part of the committee working on the GraphQL over HTTP
+specification, and sought to build a depenency-free compliant GraphQL server
+that works with most all existing Node and Deno HTTP frameworks.
+
+The decision was made to adopt the [graphql-http](https://github.com/graphql/graphql-http)
+project into the GraphQL Foundation (with Denis continuing as the lead
+maintainer), as well as to make it the official reference implementation of
+GraphQL over HTTP.
+
+We will be deprecating [express-graphql](https://github.com/graphql/express-graphql)
+as part of this change, and recommending those using it migrate to graphql-http.