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A comment on Ask HN: Were you happy moving your API from REST to GraphQL?.

Re:Ask HN: Were you happy moving your API from REST to GraphQL? by thermodynthrway on Thursday July 19, 2018 @06:13PM (#17570795)
I really wish everyone would just move to GRPC and be done with it.

GraphQL just feels too tied to the datastore on the back end to be generally useful. REST/Swagger is hugely overcomplicated for the basic REST premise of moving objects back and forth.

GRPC is what REST should have been. Ship objects back and forth between multiple languages with minimum fuss.

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Re:Ask HN: Were you happy moving your API from REST to GraphQL? by g5095 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @08:51PM (#17571637)
100% agree, RPC was good enough for our forefathers ;) REST and graphQL are both terrible (there, it had to be said).

There's no reason someone who wants an expressive query language like graphQL provides couldn't send that query over gRPC, in which case all the benefits are moot, you can do both. But let the rest of us just make regular RPC calls.

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