What's in a supergraph?

Part 3: Growing your supergraph

The supergraph is composed of the router and one or more subgraphs.

The router, the subgraphs, and the query plan used to satisfy requests.

Check your understanding

Which of the following statements are true?

The router uses its supergraph schema to build a query plan for each incoming GraphQL operation.Subgraphs intelligently coordinate among each other to resolve incoming operations.The client tells the router which subgraphs it needs data from, and the router forwards the requests.The router consolidates responses from the subgraphs into a single object to send back to the client.

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