Re:Ask HN: Are you still using REST for your new projects?
by wfwefwef32 on Friday April 27, 2018 @02:59PM
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I only have some rudimentary understanding of GraphQL, I didn't select it in the end, and went back to rest.
I think GraphQL only adds query to rest. Could be an implementation burden on the server side in order to fulfill different queries. For a site like facebook, which provides public API, GraphQL might have more flexibility. But for my personal project, I write both the backend and the frontend, I know exactly what data I want for each endpoint. There is no flexibility needed, as I design the database, the api endpoints based on my specific use-case.
I think GraphQL only adds query to rest. Could be an implementation burden on the server side in order to fulfill different queries. For a site like facebook, which provides public API, GraphQL might have more flexibility. But for my personal project, I write both the backend and the frontend, I know exactly what data I want for each endpoint. There is no flexibility needed, as I design the database, the api endpoints based on my specific use-case.
And I don't want to support any public apis