Re:PostGraphQL: PostgreSQL meets GraphQL
by sametmax on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @02:36AM
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In theory yes, in practice, I never saw REST discoverability being used much IRL
Re:PostGraphQL: PostgreSQL meets GraphQL
by yen223 on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @07:41AM
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GraphQL puts discoverability front and centre, by prioritizing introspection and static typing. GraphiQL (the browser-based GraphQL explorer) is pretty hard to beat.
Check out Github's GraphQL explorer for a great example of this: https://developer.github.com/early-access/graphql/explorer/
Re:PostGraphQL: PostgreSQL meets GraphQL
by SEJeff on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @11:23AM
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Because 90% of the "REST" developers don't actually build hypermedia apis, so they aren't really "REST" if you denote "REST" as somewhat complies with Roy Fielding's paper where he invented the acronym REST
Re:PostGraphQL: PostgreSQL meets GraphQL
by ec109685 on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @01:25AM
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Can you provide standardized examples of REST's uniforms toy and discoverability?
Re:PostGraphQL: PostgreSQL meets GraphQL
by debaserab2 on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @01:53AM
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Re:PostGraphQL: PostgreSQL meets GraphQL
by dkersten on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @05:51AM
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Its worth nothing that Roy Fielding, the guy who coined the term REST, doesn't consider an API RESTful unless it implements HATEOAS. At least, that's what he said in some talk I watched sometime ago.
GraphQL is one way to do just that.
REST has the virtues of uniformity and discoverability. I don't yet understand whether GraphQL possesses any of these too, though.