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Re:Facebook’s GraphQL gets its own open-source foundation by hn_throwaway_99 on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @06:03PM (#18395670)
GraphQL is not a generic query API language. One of the most unfortunate things about GraphQL is the presence of "QL" in the name makes people think it is somehow comparable to SQL or SPARQL.
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Re:Facebook’s GraphQL gets its own open-source foundation by degyves on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @06:57PM (#18395992)
Maybe because it IS a query language? From the website: "GraphQL is a query language for your API"... just that it is _not_ a standardized API, so we won't take advantage of HATEOAS.
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