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
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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