Re:Ask HN: Were you happy moving your API from REST to GraphQL?
by jaequery on Thursday July 19, 2018 @11:42AM
(#17567351)
well, it won't be just a simple GET /user/1 anymore.
it will be like:
user { id name role status age sex address group { id name } etc etc }
Re:Ask HN: Were you happy moving your API from REST to GraphQL?
by spinningarrow on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:03PM
(#17567575)
Right - what I meant was more like when you get some data you probably want to display it in the UI and would already be doing something like ‘Hi ${user.name}, your age is ${user.age}’. This is affected by schema changes irrespective of the way the API is invoked.
Wouldn’t you need to do this in some form anyway (since those fields would be displayed or used in some way)?